| |  | | | | | | | | | | | To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | | John Andrew Holmes | | | | | | | Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting. | | Hubert H. Humphrey | | | We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | | We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. | | Kahlil Gibran | | | | | When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. | | Kahlil Gibran | | Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies?
and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. | | Rainer Maria Rilke | | | | | | | |
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