Quotes about Beauty
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
- John Keats
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry is not a luxury.
- Audre Lorde
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
- Pope Benedict XVI
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
- Washington Irving
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
- Henry David Thoreau
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
- CS Lewis
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
- Henry David Thoreau