Charles Dickens

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

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.

Write drunk, revise sober.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.