“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”

“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'”

“All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.”

“The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.”

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”

“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”