Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

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.

If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the sacred season, we shall harvest the ripen fruit.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

I literally cannot remember one joke.

There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.