We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.