The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.