the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

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.

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser .

Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.