One should always be in love.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.