To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. – John Andrew Holmes
The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. – Thomas Hill
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. – Thomas Kincade
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. – Honore de Balzac