Flowers…
are a proud assertion
that a ray
of beauty outvalues
all the utilities
of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression
is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no exquisite beauty…
without some strangeness
in the proportion.
Edgar Allan Poe
The perception of beauty
is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian)
You cannot perceive beauty
but with a serene mind.
Henry David Thoreau
tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian)
It is amazing
how complete
is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
usually referred to as Leo Tolstoy
Quote from ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’)
It’s amazing
how lovely
common things become,
if one only knows
how to look at them.
Louisa May Alcott
The beautiful things
of the earth
become more dear
as they elude pursuit.
Thomas Hardy
The absence
of flaw in beauty
is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis
What you love is always beautiful.French Proverb
