Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Let it be that your life becomes the brightest light that enlightens the whole world.

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.