Who said “Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”?

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

“For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.”

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”