All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Oscar WildeTo begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
Oscar WildeOut of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.
Oscar Wilde