Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Louis MacNeice

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Archibald MacLeish

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Craig Johnson

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Elie Wiesel

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

David Icke

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

David Hume

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

C. S. Lewis

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Bill Vaughan

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Alfred Nobel

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Alexander Smith

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Conor McPherson

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.