Quotes About Beauty

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Earth laughs in flower

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee whyThis charm is wasted on the earth and sky,Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I wiped away the weeds and foam,I fetched my sea-born treasures home;But the poor, unsightly, noisome thingsHad left their beauty on the shore,With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.