- 'What of Art?’ she asked.
- ‘It is a malady.’
- ‘Love?’
- ‘An illusion.’
- ‘Religion?’
- ‘The fashionable substitute for Belief.’
- ‘You are a sceptic.’
- ‘Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.’
- ‘What are you?’
- ‘To define is to limit.’

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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The Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim of the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I being poor have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

Yeats William Butler
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As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
In one of thine, from that which thou departest,
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st
Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest:
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase,
Without this, folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease,
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom Nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look whom she best endowed she gave the more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

William Shakespeare