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" Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language. "

Donald Hall

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" When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology. "

" Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. "

" Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. "

" If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. "

" When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. "

" Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. "

" If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. "

" Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Beauty

Imperfections

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" I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it. "

" Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. "

" In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets. "

" In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. "

" If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter. "

" Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle. "

" Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of. "

" Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. "

" The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. "

" Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. "

" The beauty of the past belongs to the past. "

Margaret Bourke-White

Beauty

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" I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. "

" There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. "

" Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. "

" A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. "

" Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. "

" It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different. "

" I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty. "

" The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty. "

" The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of. "

" Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. "