Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.