Beauty Quotes
Shakespeare, Milton and Emerson sit at the top, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a poet far less read now than in the 1820s, has a surprising number of entries. Emerson’s Nature (1836) supplies the best-sourced line, that beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797) and Emerson’s poem on the rhodora are the pieces to read in full.
Three lines carry flags. “Beauty is the promise of happiness” is credited to Edmund Burke and marked misattributed. A couplet about beauty’s fading nature having a season is credited to Robert Burns and disputed. “We all have a weakness for beauty” is credited to Albert Camus, also disputed.
Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.
“Your beauty leaves me breathless,” said Pereban.
“Yet you find the breath to say so.”