Quotes About Beauty

Men were created to have facial hair like women were created to be smooth-faced. Well, not all women. I've seen pockets where that's not the case, and that's not good.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.'

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

I like poems that are complex.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.