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Quotes About Beauty

The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe is your canvass; love is your paintbrush.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thorns do not stop the rose from being picked.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Weeds blend in; roses stand out.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You can crush a rose; all it will do is give off perfume.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Clear cascades!Into the waves scatterBlue pine needles.
~ Matsuo Bash?
A rough sea!Stretched out over SadoThe Milky Way.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the flood of its sweet scent.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Pausing between clouds the moon rests in the eyes of its beholders
~ Matsuo Bash?
Cherry blossoms – lights of years past.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Come, see real flowers of this painful world.
~ Matsuo Bash?
This snowy morning That black crow I hate so much. . . But he's so beautiful!
~ Matsuo Bash?
Moonlit plum tree- wait, spring will come.
~ Matsuo Bash?
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Ah, it is spring, Great spring it is now, Great, great spring - Ah, Great -
~ Matsuo Bash?
Searching for the scent of the early plum, I found it by the eaves Of a proud storehouse.
~ Matsuo Bash?
you make the fire and I'll show you something wonderful: a big ball of snow!
~ Matsuo Bash?
A warbler singing— somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket
~ Matsuo Bash?
Should I hold it in my hand, it will melt in my burning tears. Autumnal frost.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Many things of the past Are brought to my mind, As I stand in the garden Staring at a cherry tree.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Even in Kyoto     longing for Kyoto            hototogisu
~ Matsuo Bash?
A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.
~ Matsuo Bash?