As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.
If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.