What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.