Quotes About Beauty

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.