Quotes About Beauty

kore hodo to / botan no shikata / suru ko kana "The peony was as big as this, "Says the little girl Opening her arms.

hana no kage / aka no tanin wa / nakari keri Under cherry-flowers, None are utter strangers.

The world of dew is, yes, a world of dew, but even so

A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought — But no, a butterfly. SDC aoyagi no / mayu kaku kishi no / hitai kana2 Green willows Paint eyebrows on the face of the cliff CAC

Sir George Sansom (1883–1965) defined them as "little drops of poetic essence.

koe nakaba / sagi koso yuki no / hitotsurane4 If only noiseless they would go, The herons flying by Were but a line of snow Across the sky CHP

Even after waking From the dream I'll see the colors of irises.

If only noiseless they would go, The herons flying by Were but a line of snow Across the sky

a flying squirrel sits chewing on a bird withered field (Yosa Buson`s farewell haiku)

Lo! willow leaves have gone, Without getting grey-haired.

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.

I don't think she looks sixty, do you Nik?" "Are you kidding! She looks better than we do and we're only thirty-six.

Japanese for simplicity and taking pleasure in imperfections

red geraniums. Jack led the way to

Don't you have a pair of pearls?

Cuántas horas he pasado conviviendo en secreto con mi idea de ella! ¡Nos hemos amado tanto, dentro de mis sueños! Pero ni siquiera ahí, se lo juro, he soñado nunca poseerla. Soy delicado y casto incluso en mis sueños. Respeto hasta el sueño de una mujer bella.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

As vezes ouço passar o vento; e só de ouvir o vento passar, vale a pena ter nascido

Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.

Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.

Does a flower really have beauty? Does a fruit really have beauty? No: they have only color and form And existence. Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist But that I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. It means nothing. So why do I say about things: they're beautiful?

I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour.. ...On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden...

Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist