“All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.”

“From birth to death, love is the motto of every living being.”

“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.”

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

“Come then, my bird! For the peace thou ever bearest,
Still Heaven's messenger of comfort to me—
Come—this fond bosom, O faithfullest and fairest,
Bleeds with its death-wound, its wound of love for thee!”

“The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”

“The chief element of creation is love and the chief action of love is Art.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”