Quotes About Beauty

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.