- "One truth is clear, Whatever Is, Is Right." - Alexander Pope, "An Essay On Man"
-"...we must cultivate our own garden." -Voltaire, Candide
-"One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person." - Rousseau, Confessions: Book III
-"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." - William Wordsworth, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality"
-"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." - John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
-"[His] life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." - Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich
-"If I let you kiss my hand, you'll be wanting to kiss my elbow next, and then my shoulder." - Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
-"A terrible beauty is born." - William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916"
-"The ceremony of innocence is drowned." - Yeats, "The Second Coming"
-"Or say there is beauty with no soul at all." - Robert Browning, "Bishop Orders His Tomb to St. Praxed's Church"
-"Out went my heart's new fire and left it cold." - Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
-"No Coward Soul is Mine" - Emily Bronte
-"Her tree of life drooped from the root" - Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
-"Make the shut eyes of stricken spirits weep." - Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Ave Atque Vale"
-"My enemy is Madness"- Eugene Lee-Hamilton, "The New Medusa"
-"May He within Himself make pure." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Epic/ Morte d' Arthur"
-"The wild unrest that lives in woe." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
Hopefully these quotes have left you inspired. Happy writing, my friends! :)
