Quotes About Beauty

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Let our scars fall in love.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Painting is silent poetry.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.