You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
