My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

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.

The journey of greatness begins in the mind

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.