“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

“To love one who loves you,To admire one who admires you,In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,Is exceeding the limit of human joy;It is stealing fire from heaven.”

“To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.”

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. ”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some”