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Quotes About Beauty

If stars were notes upon a musical sky the night what a song of beauty!
~ Terri Guillemets
Clouds tie-dye the night.
~ Terri Guillemets
The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life is so much clearer under the stars than under a roof.
~ Terri Guillemets
The moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below. Her forehead is of amplest blond; Her cheek like beryl stone; Her eye unto the summer dew The likest I have known... And what a privilege to be But the remotest star! For certainly her way might pass Beside your twinkling door. Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue.
~ Emily Dickinson
Whatever else astronomy may or may not be who can doubt it to be the most beautiful of the sciences?
~ Isaac Asimov
Light of the moon Moves west, flowers' shadows Creep eastward.
~ Buson (1716–1784)
Die down, O dismal day! and let me live. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strewn With colored clouds — large, light, and fugitive — By upper winds through pompous motions blown.
~ David Gray
The stars were mingled with my dreams...
~ William Wordsworth
How bright and beautiful a comet is as it flies past our planet — provided it does fly past it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Under the stars, the world is a different place.
~ Terri Guillemets
The Moon and its phases gave man his first calendar. Trying to match that calendar with the seasons helped give him mathematics. The usefulness of the calendar helped give rise to the thought of beneficent gods. And with all that the Moon is beautiful, too.
~ Isaac Asimov
The flowers of the past are dead — but their wilted beauty and potpourri aroma enrich the present with memories.
~ Terri Guillemets
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary...
~ Alfred Kreymborg
...the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.... there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
~ John Ruskin, "Of the Open Sky"
Here there are very beautiful fields with olive trees, which are grey and silvery green, like pollard willows. And I never get tired of the blue sky..
~ Vincent van Gogh, letter, 1889
And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.
~ Lord Byron, "The Dream," 1816
Day holds the sky with big blue arms Until the sun sends her off into evening With a grateful blaze of vibrant colors
~ Terri Guillemets
I rest in rainbows and I nest in clouds I'd live in raindrops if only I knew how
~ Author Unknown
Dreams grow like wildflowers in her soul.
~ Terri Guillemets
Our souls are infinitely swirling colors of stardust and hope.
~ Terri Guillemets
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
~ Part of an Irish blessing
Moonlight is a beautiful and comforting reminder that the sun is still out there somewhere.
~ Terri Guillemets
Moonlight is sculpture: sunlight is painting.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1838