“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour