3,478 quotes found
“Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. "She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though...”
“The budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness,to put ...”
“Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.”
“What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave a...”
“An oceanic expanse of pre-dawn gray white below obscures a checkered grid of Saskatchewan, a snow plain nicked by the dark, unruly lines of woody swales. One might imagine that little is to be seen...”
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.”
“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..”
“...you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...”
“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”
“Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone w...”
“…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.”
“The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.”
“Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.”
“Yo me salgo desnudo a la calle,maduro de versos perdidos.I step naked into the streetripe with lost poems.”
“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.”
“True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder”
“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope...”
“Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.”
“I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.”
“beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously — racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring s...”
