All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.