Quotes About Beauty

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

As soon as high consciousness is reached, the enjoyment of existence is entwined with pain, frustration, loss, tragedy. Amid the passing of so much beauty, so much heroism, so much daring, Peace is then the intuition of permanence. It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact. Each tragedy is the disclosure of an ideal: What might have been, and was not; What can be. The tragedy was not in vain.

Go by, go by, with all your din, Your dust, your greed, your guile, Your pomp, your gold; you cannot win From her one smile.... Outlawed? Then hills and glens and streams Are outlawed, too. Proud world, from our immortal dreams, We banish you.

love lies hidden in every rose...

Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

lleva su inolvidable belleza con la distraída tranquilidad de quien es mucho más profundo que el estar siendo bonita todo el tiempo.

Otros niños también llegaban, que se conocían y no, niños lindos y no, desenvueltos y no, allí todo el mundo rivalizaba en belleza, en calidad, en todo lo que se podía rivalizar frente a la puerta de los Lastarria y era un poquito como si todo el mundo se estuviera odiando.

For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.

His most vulnerable points, moreover, are said to be the feet and the eyes; the feet, you see, for the lust of wandering, and the eyes for the lust of beauty. The poor beggar goes at such a dreadful speed that he bleeds beneath the eyes, and his feet burn.

you look like the spirit of the island, with moss in your hair and wind in your eyes, and sun and stars mixed in your face.

Midway in my delight of the wild beauty, there crept, unbidden and unexplained, a curious feeling of disquietude, almost of alarm.

Lo, this is she that was the world's delight.

O splendid and sterile Dolores,Our Lady of Pain.

Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might beWhere air might wash and long leaves cover me;Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers,Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.

Ah that such sweet things should be fleet,Such fleet things sweet!

If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather.

If you were April's lady,And I were lord in May.

Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!