No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.

We are spirits clad in veils.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better

One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.

I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.

Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!