I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

Only in heaven will we know exactly what heaven is like.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

hope is not a plan of action.