Quotes in this theme
Beauty
Archibald Mcleish
To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
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Sarah Teasdale
Oh better than the minting / Of a gold-crowned king / Is the safe-kept memory / Of a lovely thing.
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E.M. Forster
Florence she found perfectly sweet, Naples a dream, but very whiffy. In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.
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Sarah Teasdale
Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.
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Sarah Teasdale
Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, / It is not far— / It never will be far.
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E.M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.
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Arthur Waley
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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E.M. Forster
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M.
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