“But now, like a fallen sparrowOn a golden chain,I'm forever bound in shadow,A prisoner to my pain.”

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.”

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“The Fallen∞Now that it’s over,My worlds forever changed.Without you, I feel empty,All this pain, still remains.”

“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]”

“The smell of peace is abroad, the air is cold, the skies are brittle, and the leaves have finally fallen. I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple thread-like chain of lapis lazulis and pearls. On my face is softness and content like a veil of golden moonlight. And I have never in all my lives been so lonely.”