Beauty Quotes

“She dwells with Beauty - Beauty that must die.”

John Keats

“For 'tis the eternal law that first in beauty should be first in might.”

John Keats

“He is made one with Nature: there is heard his voice in all her music.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, the holy time is quiet as a Nun breathless with adoration.”

William Wordsworth

“Dear Nature is the kindest mother still.”

Lord Byron

“Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!”

Robert Browning

“Margaret, are you grieving over Goldengrove unleaving?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd.”

Walt Whitman

“A Light exists in Spring not present on the Year at any other period.”

Emily Dickinson

“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons.”

Emily Dickinson

“Out of the bosom of the Air, out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, silent, and soft, and slow descends the snow.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; he sings the song, but it cheers not now.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.”

John Muir

“Going to the mountains is going home.”

John Muir

“It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky.”

John Ruskin

“There is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory.”

John Ruskin

“Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; in your body is the garden of flowers.”

Kabir

“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”

Plotinus

“But of beauty, I repeat again that we saw her there shining in company with the celestial forms; and coming to earth we find her here too, shining in clearness through the clearest aperture of sense.”

Plato

“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.”

Buddha (Dhammapada)