Quotes About Beauty

I shall never forget how the red ball of the sun hung on the horizon and raced along with the train for a short space," she later wrote, "and then plunged below the belly-band of the earth. There have been other suns that set in significance for me, but that sun! It was a book-mark in the pages of a life." While

The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.

The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.

I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.

Helena, hermosa flor púrpura, el tormento de toda una ciudad sacrificada a su belleza...

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it? ("The Poison Garden")

The Beauty drew near and the Youth heard her softly ringing, clear voice, every sound of which rent his heart with a sweet pain, "Dear Youth, do you know the price of my love?" "Let it be the price of life!" exclaimed the Youth, "Let it lead even to the dark gates of death." ("The Poison Garden")

Rare and powerful harmonies exist, Shaping both scent and contour in a flower. Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until, Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond. And thus do images of fleeting vision, Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky, Once turned to stone live on from age to age, Held always in a faultless, polished phrase. ("A Sonnet To Form")

La femme est mystérieuse et adorable dans toutes celles de ses voies qui mènent à la volupté.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never grow so old again, And I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. - Sweet Thing

She's as sweet as tupelo honey, She's an angel of the first degree. - Tupelo Honey

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Her mother told her about cardinals when she was a child. This bird was symbolic of beauty in the midst of darkness, hope in the midst of sorrow—and her family had certainly seen a fair share of sorrow. Could

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

The true poem rests between the words.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

I've forged you into stars Under the vault of my skull

he is blind in his love and he sees no other beauty save her he loves who will cost him his life