"To live in the presence of great..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac

“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”

“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”

“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

“I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.”

“What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?”

“Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.”

“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

“People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.”