Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”

“The blessed damozel leaned out from the gold bar of Heaven.”

“What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell? None of the sins, but this and that fair deed which a man might have done and did not do.”

“A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.”

“Her eyes were deeper than the depth of waters stilled at even.”

“Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword in the hand of a child.”

“Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams.”

“Could you not drink her gaze like wine?”

“Eat thou and drink; tomorrow thou shalt die.”

“The painter who is not a poet is a bad painter.”

“Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.”

“Let the thoughts of a man refer to a woman, and if they are not harmonious, do not trust them.”

“Her soul shall be strayed winds that go In woodland valleys to and fro.”