Poets And Painters Have The Power To

Art Is A Shadow Of Divine Perfection.

One Paints With One's Head, Not One's Hand.

And Who Is So Barbarous As Not To Understand That The Foot Of A Man Is Nobler Than His Shoe, And His Skin Nobler Than That Of The Sheep With Which He Is Clothed.

Heaven-born, The Soul A Heavenward Course Must Hold; Beyond The World She Soars; The Wise Man, I Affirm, Can Find No Rest In That Which Perishes, Nor Will He Lend His Heart To Ought That Doth Time Depend

With Few Words I Shall Make Thee Understand My Soul.