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What magic shall solve us the secret
Of beauty that’s born for an hour?

— Madison Cawein Undertones (1896)

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More quotes by Madison Cawein

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

New Poems (1909)

Some shall reap that never sow;
And some shall toil and not attain.

Undertones (1896)

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Myth and Romance (1899)

At daybreak Morn shall come to me
In raiment of the white winds spun.

Undertones (1896)

This is the truth as I see it, my dear,
Out in the wind and the rain:
They who have nothing have little to fear,—
Nothing to lose or to gain.

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

Democritus Freeman (1948)

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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