“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you!”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (c. 397), X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery (1980), ed. William J. Kelly

About Augustine of Hippo

354 – 430

Early Christian theologian and philosopher, author of "Confessions".

“Love, and do what thou wilt.”

“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every Art.”

“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”