“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”

“Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.”

“Now you know how much my love for youburns deep in mewhen I forget about our emptiness,and deal with shadows as with solid things.”

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

“But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay.”

“The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.”

“And all the while one spirit uttered this,The other one did weep so, that, for pity,I swooned away as if I had been dying,And fell, even as a dead body falls.”