"It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power." — Jean-Francois Millet, French painter, born 1814
"Well, said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called." — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"How do you spell 'love'?' Piglet.'You don't spell it...you feel it.' Pooh" — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?" — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude." — A. A. Milne, English author, born 1882
"Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo." — Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, born 1911
"Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?" — Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, born 1911
"Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible." — John Milton, English poet, born 1608