Quotes About Beauty

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.