"Beauty's a fragile boon, and the years are quick to destroy it, Always diminished with time, never enduring too long."

"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."

"Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former…"

"The greatest minds are those who can be happy in themselves."

"The lover is ever anxious."