Prose talks and poetry sings.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.