For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Quotations
Beauty
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
I don't take good pictures cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-Ani DiFranco
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
