Quotes about Beauty
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
Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.
— William Wordsworth
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
— John Keats