Quotes About Beauty

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.

SOCRATES: That since beautiful is the opposite of ugly, they are two things. GLAUCON: Of course. SOCRATES: And since they are two things, each of them is also one? GLAUCON: That's true too.

Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.

As we were walking the other day, she said she had often thought what a beautiful world this would be, when we should see every thing right side up. Now, we see every thing topsy-turvy, and all is confusion.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Not by human dwellings--not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them.

Let me wear the day Well so when it reaches you You will enjoy it.

your hands humming hurricanes of beauty.

your face like summer lightning gets caught in my voice and i draw you up from deep rivers taste your face of a thousand names see you smile a new season hear your voice a wild sea pausing in the wind

To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u little 2/yr/old/brotha, I wud laugh, jump, leap up and touch the stars cuz u be the poem i try for each time i pick up a pen and paper. u. and Morani and Mungu be our blue/blk/stars that will shine on our lives and makes us finally BE. if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha, poetry wud go out of bizness.

i saw you vincent van gogh perched on those pennsylvania cornfields communing amid secret black bird societies. yes.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.