“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?”

“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.”

“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now call kings really and truly become philosophers.”

“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.”

“A friend is someone, who knows the song in your heart...and sings it back when you've forgotten the words.”