Quotes About Beauty

A rose in sunlight is nature. A rose in the dark is poetry.

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.

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

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades—nature's framework of their picture—so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.

Rain utters poetry in drops, splats, and puddles.

...beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm...

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old...

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow while looking for that pot of gold.

When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

...chaos of color, like a shattered rainbow...

Many things happen rain or shine, but rainbows are so special they happen rain AND shine!

'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high The rainbow, bas'd on ocean, span the sky...

The sky it cries And the sun pats it dry With a rainbow up on high.

...after-storm birds singing the color into rainbows...

Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows...

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

The most beautiful antiques are not found in stores.

The preachers who preach the beauty of truth, honesty and a useful, helpful life, I am with, head, heart and hand. The preachers who declare that there can be no such thing as a beautiful life unless it will accept superstition, I am against, tooth, claw, club, tongue and pen.

God loves an idle rainbow, No less than labouring seas.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

If without you I gather a rose, it turns thorn, But when you come back again, through you We return to fragrant and pink and petaled.