The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.
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.
Easily moved by beauty—such is my nature.
I take a few phrases
and they just turn into poems
Deemest thou, labour
Only is earnest?
Grave is all beauty,
Solemn is joy.
"Our homebound journey begins
To end at the center
So, everyone shall know the beauty."
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.