Top 100 Beauty Poetry Quotes
#1. It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.
Maria Tatar
#2. I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
Roberto Benigni
#3. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Thomas Mann
#4. You write so beautifully
the inside of your mind must be a terrible place
Unknown
#5. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
Phar West Nagle
#6. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.
Sidney Lanier
#7. Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?
Clark Ashton Smith
#8. The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
Anthony S. Maulucci
#9. There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#10. Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
Sappho
#11. Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Pices : Without you I'm nothing,you're my everything
Aquarius : Without you I'm lonely and unpretty,you're my happiness and beauty
Patrick Cruz
#13. I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars.
Jessica Kristie
#15. Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
John Ruskin
#16. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray
Stella Coulson
#17. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.
Helen Bevington
#19. Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.
Amit Ray
#20. I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face ...
John Geddes
#21. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!
N.H. Kleinbaum
#22. Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
Charles Buxton
#24. She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.
Brandon Villasenor
#25. We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.
Heather K. O'Hara
#26. You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant.
Christina Strigas
#30. Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places ... where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call our home.
Peace Gypsy
#31. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco
#32. If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.
Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.
It's meant to be hard.
Pleasefindthis
#33. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.
Susie Clevenger
#34. In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note
In me a beauty that was never mine,
How first you knew me in a book I wrote,
How first you loved me for a written line ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#36. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.
Jane Hirshfield
#37. Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
Jean Cocteau
#38. It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.
Carolyn Porco
#39. To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Nicole Brossard
#40. [Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#41. Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect ... runs into fable, personifies every fact ...
Marsilio Ficino
#42. You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty
Shaken by your beauty
Shaken.
William Carlos Williams
#43. I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)
Mev Puleo
#45. We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#46. There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Anna Quindlen
#47. Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.
Terry A. O'Neal
#49. In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
Jonas Mekas
#50. I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.
Bryant McGill
#52. what is
more beautiful
tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them.
Sanober Khan
#53. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
Octavius Winslow
#54. A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.
Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
Mary Oliver
#55. We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.
Tom Althouse
#56. Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell
#57. Your words on the screen are my color palette
I dip my brush into your words and paint you
On the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tablet
Of things eternal : love truth beauty happiness
Richard L. Ratliff
#58. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#59. There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks out in wonder at the beauty of the world.
Heather K. O'Hara
#60. Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Goldwin Smith
#61. The human voice often shatters the beauty of the most tender passions; and when we left Simla next day, and Maureen and Sunil used all the stock cliches to express their love, I was a little disappointed. But the poetry of life was in their bodies, not in their tongues.
Ruskin Bond
#62. Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.
'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,
covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,
and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,
and prayed like an orphan.
Wendell Berry
#63. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
Brandi L. Bates
#64. Oh the beauty of nature!
Oh the magical heart touching flower.
My heart wants to bloom like you
with love, joy, and laughter.
Debasish Mridha
#65. I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.
Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.
Jacob Nordby
#66. But when I think of us,
in the quiet when I'm on my own,
I think of Beauty and the Beast.
I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#67. But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#68. You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.
Gabriela Mistral
#69. No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
Erasmus Darwin
#70. Colliding with the bright light
Of my true self,
My illusions scream loudly,
Themselves illusions
Created by other illusions,
Finally knowing that
Deep within me
Beneath the shell
Lies the sacred beauty
Of my true self.
Ilchi Lee
#71. The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
#72. A beautiful phrase and a beautiful sunset derive from the same source.
Marty Rubin
#73. ]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray
Sappho
#75. Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair.
Marguerite De Angeli
#77. it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants
so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.
Sanober Khan
#78. Poetry and beauty
are born out of pain.
This is their glory,
this is our gain.
S. Tarr
#79. It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic
#80. Focus on beauty, not on fear
dance with stress to let it clear
Debasish Mridha
#81. If you love beauty, it's because beauty lives within you. If you love art, it's because you are creative. If it wakes up your heart, a receptor for it already exists within you. Your soul is drawn to the things that will help you unfold your most glorious expression. Give in.
Cynthia Occelli
#82. Beauty crowds me till I die,
Beauty, mercy have on me!
But if I expire today,
Let it be in sight of thee
Emily Dickinson
#83. My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.
Robert Bly
#84. Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.
Fernando Pessoa
#85. She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words.
Isabel Allende
#86. We left you there, lonely,
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree
Vachel Lindsay
#87. Laying out grounds ... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting ... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections ... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature ...
William Wordsworth
#88. True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#89. Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.
Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.
Poetry causes the increase of the human race.
Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.
Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.
Poetry is the royal essence of beauty.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#90. There comes a period of the imagination to each
a later youth
the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
Irving Stone
#92. Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#93. What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
George Matthew Adams
#94. I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.
Brandon Villasenor
#95. Beauty is so rare a th
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card
- from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]
Jack Spicer
#96. To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
#97. Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
Donald Hall
#98. Tranquil breeze
Glittering beach
Dancing water
Bluest sky
My mind flies high with joyful laughter.
Debasish Mridha
#99. When I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ...
John Geddes
#100. The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
Mahatma Gandhi
