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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it. -- Andrea Bocelli
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. -- Edgar Allan Poe
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. -- Seamus Heaney
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. -- Johnny Depp
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
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
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. -- Thomas Mann
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
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. -- Horace Walpole
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
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. -- Walter Pater
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
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. -- Walter Pater
Poetry is the breath of beauty. -- Leigh Hunt
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. -- Robert Gilfillan
Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy. -- Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Robin Williams
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation -- Jean Cocteau
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? -- Robin Wright
It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed. -- Maria Tatar
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. -- Debasish Mridha
I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the world. -- Mary Oliver
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. -- Manuel Puig
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. -- Aberjhani
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. -- Thomas Mann
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal." -- Aberjhani
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. -- Aberjhani
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty." -- Anthony S. Maulucci
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
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. -- Tara Brach
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. -- Herbert Spencer
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. -- Van Cliburn
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. -- Matthew Arnold
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. -- Alex Lemon
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
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
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
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Tom Schulman
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful. -- Paul Celan
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
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature. -- Albert Einstein
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

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