I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.