A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

Love will find you when you least expect it to. It will come unannounced and find you in an unusual moment on the strangest of days!

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.