"Nature is the art of God" — Dante Alighieri

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Dante Alighieri Quote