I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. – Benito Perez Galdos

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then? – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. – John Jay Chapman

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. – Juan Ramon Jimenez