Quotes About Beauty

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

We ache with the yearning that turns half into whole and offer no excuses for the beauty of our souls.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

The Universe said, 'Let me show your soul something beautiful.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

It may be that poetry's real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I always wear my comfy clothes. It's a life with fewer distractions, but should something beautiful show up, a middle-aged woman is free to stare.

official capital of Russia in 1718 and remains to this day one of the world's most beautiful cities.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.