Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
About This Quote
About J. Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities
J. Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities.
Themes
- Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime