Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
