En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit th...
Autumn is no time to lie alone
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.