I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it