Quotes About Beauty

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one's own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

Trees scream and drop bright leaves

salute the new sunset

Trees hang their branches

Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?

You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of Tarrytown to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit.

I'm crying all the time now. I cried all over the street when I left the Seattle Wobbly Hall. I cried listening to Bach. I cried looking at the happy flowers in my backyard, I cried at the sadness of the middle aged trees. Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul. God appearing to be seen and cried over. Overflowing heart of Paterson.

with your eyes/with your Death full of Flowers.

Heaven balanced on a grassblade

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

the fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation's creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.

You stand above them like the brightest star in the heavens.  You are the sweet golden light I didn't know I was missing."  He looked at her, his heart bursting.  "The honeyed warmth I ne'er knew existed, even in my earth life.  You may no' be the first woman I've drawn into my arms, but you are the only one I've given my heart.

Nous nous chérirons nuit et jour : « Nos âmes sont deux fleurs d'amour, « Nos lèvres deux calices. »

She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within. The first needs the shimmer of a diamond to maker her sparkle, but for the other, her beauty is illuminated through the sheer light of her soul.

Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant.