Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"To understand is to begin to forgive."

"The heart's fidelity is the soul's greatest strength."

"A life devoted to beauty is a life devoted to truth."

"The artist who speaks from personal truth speaks universally."

"What we preserve in memory shapes what we become."

"Love is the force that holds the fractured world together."

"To create without fear is to create with freedom."

"The soul's hunger cannot be satisfied by material things."

"In dedication to one's craft lies the path to mastery."

"The beauty we perceive is a reflection of our own capacity to feel."

"To be fully human is to love, create, and dream."

"What passes away leaves traces in the eternal."

"The artist stands as witness to the invisible world."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."

"Without music the passions cannot exist in their fullest forms."

"A sonnet is a moment's monument, a monument of a moment."

"The heart desires what it desires, and we cannot always command our affections."

"Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace."

"Art is not meant to decorate walls. It is war against brutality and darkness."

"I have been here before, but when or how I cannot quite say."

"The beauty of a moment lies in its transience."

"In love, as in life, we are often blind to what is plainly before us."

"Great art demands great sacrifice from the artist."

"Time is both the greatest gift and the cruelest thief."

"To create is to participate in the divine."

"The soul speaks in images when words fail."

"We are all prisoners of our own desires."

"Beauty without truth is merely ornament."

"The artist's curse is to feel everything too deeply."

"Love is not a gentle thing; it is fierce and all-consuming."