All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles