Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time."
Marianne Moore
"To be practical is to be beautiful."
Marianne Moore
"The greatest thing is to move willingly in the direction of beauty."
Marianne Moore
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"Beauty exists in the acknowledgment of beauty."
Hart Crane
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"Beauty is the bridge between spirit and matter."
Hart Crane
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"Beauty and ugliness are the same thing."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Beauty is truth made visible."
Hilda Doolittle
"Enjoy it while you can, and while you're here notice the beautiful things."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I urge you to reach out and grab the beauty of life."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment."
William Carlos Williams
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"Beauty is the reward of the attentive eye."
William Carlos Williams
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"The beautiful life requires beautiful choices."
William Carlos Williams
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"In the midst of chaos, there is beauty waiting to be discovered."
Hart Crane
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"We're all beautiful in our broken hearts."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Beauty is in the broken places, the honest places."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Beauty multiplies when shared with others."
Allen Ginsberg
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"The pursuit of beauty is the pursuit of truth."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Beauty transcends physical form."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Beauty exists in imperfection and decay."
Hilda Doolittle
"A masterpiece of understatement."
Marianne Moore
"A thing of beauty is a thing of strength."
Marianne Moore
"Beauty requires no explanation when encountered directly."
Marianne Moore
"Beauty is the achievement of a successful form."
Wallace Stevens
"The poor man's need for beauty rivals his need for bread."
Wallace Stevens
"The nature of beauty is its transience."
Wallace Stevens
"Beauty is the evidence that life is worth living."
Wallace Stevens
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"Beauty is what remains when everything else falls away."
Jack Kerouac
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"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist brings into the world."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty is found in the simplest things."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Amy Lowell