Quotes About Beauty

The calves were beautiful, the ankles long and slim and with enough melodic line for a tone poem.

I have such a beautiful love for myself—and the sweet part of it—no rivals.

She leaned back and a pulse beat in her throat. She was exquisite, she was dark, she was deadly. And nothing would ever touch her, not even the law.

They were never young and will never be old. They have no beauty, no charm, no style. They don't have to please anybody. They are safe. They

From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away. Her mouth was too wide, her eyes

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty." "Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily

There are sunsets above other oceans, Ghuda. Mighty sights and great wonders to behold.

The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends.

He had been gorgeous to look at and deadly to live with.

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

You valorize intelligence because that's your most valued personal characteristic, just like the model feels about her beauty and the football player about his talent for using his body weight to mow down other human bodies.

That is Plato's great hope: that love of beauty can, when rightly cultivated and educated, battle immorality.

Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

We achieve a life worth living by understanding how the cosmos achieved an existence worth existing. The impersonally sublime is internalized into personal virtue. Plato: For measure and proportion manifest themselves in all areas as beauty and virtue

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

I wish that I could put up yesterday's evening sky for all posterity, could preserve a night of love, the sound of a mountain stream, a realization as it sets my mind afire, a dance, a day of harmony, ten thousand glorious days of clouds that will instead vanish and never be seen again, line them up in jars where they might be admired in the interim and tasted again as needed.

To be a young woman is to face your own annihilation in innumerable ways or to flee it or the knowledge of it, or all these things at once. "The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world," said Edgar Allan Poe, who must not have imagined it from the perspective of women who prefer to live.

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story. Desire for them is in part a desire for a noble destiny, and beauty can seem like a door to meaning as well as to pleasure.

B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.—WALLACE STEVENS, "OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS

Certain kinds of beauty make people weep, the moments "when hope and history rhyme