It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.