On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

God is no 3-second lover

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.