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It is not that I mourn you,
To mourn you were to scorn you,
For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek.

— Robert Williams Buchanan Undertones (1883)

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Beauty

More quotes by Robert Williams Buchanan

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought,
The singer, upward-springing,
Is grander than his singing,
And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought.

Undertones (1883)

Along the melting shores of earth
An emerald flame there ran,
Forest and field grew bright, and mirth
Gladdened the flocks of man.

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.

Balder the Beautiful (1877)

So bent on self-sanctifying,—
That she never thought of trying
To save her poor husband as well.

Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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