“I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’”

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

Myself I must remake.

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

Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

Nothing more beautiful than taking a nap with my children.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.