Beauty Quotes

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

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"Beauty exists in the ordinary if we learn to look properly."
William Carlos Williams
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"Beauty requires attention and cannot be rushed."
William Carlos Williams
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"The pursuit of beauty makes life worth living."
William Carlos Williams
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"Beauty emerges from the struggle with form and language."
Hart Crane
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"The beauty of a poem lies in what it suggests rather than states."
Hart Crane
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"The machinery of industrial America contains hidden beauty."
Hart Crane
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"Beauty is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
Hart Crane
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"Beauty emerges when we see beneath the surface of things."
Hart Crane
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"Art must be exact; beauty lies in precision."
Hilda Doolittle
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"I have learned that beauty often wears the face of suffering."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Beauty is not decoration; it is necessity."
Hilda Doolittle
"Beauty exists in the space between reality and dream."
Wallace Stevens
"Beauty is the signature of truth."
Wallace Stevens
"The human soul is hungry for beauty."
Fannie Hurst
"The beauty of life is in its unpredictability."
Fannie Hurst
"Beauty is found in the unexpected."
Fannie Hurst
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"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Beauty can pierce one like a pain."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Armor's affecting grace, as sweet as any Swiss cheese hole."
Marianne Moore
"Beauty is not something that can be added or subtracted; it is what remains."
Marianne Moore
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"Beauty is in the details that most people never bother to examine."
William Carlos Williams
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"The consciousness of beauty is the beginning of all understanding."
Hart Crane
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"Beauty is not something that can be argued about. Beauty simply is."
Amy Lowell
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"Beauty lies in simplicity and truth."
Amy Lowell
"The world is ugly, and the people are sad, but we must find beauty in the struggle."
Wallace Stevens
"Beauty is the byproduct of attention to the world as it truly is."
Wallace Stevens
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"Beauty exists in fragments, in broken things made whole through art."
Hilda Doolittle
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"To understand beauty is to glimpse the divine."
Hilda Doolittle
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"The human soul needs actual beauty."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Beauty and truth are one."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman