Beauty Quotes

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

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"The human mind is very occupied with beauty but not beauty in itself."
Gertrude Stein
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"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Robert Frost
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"The sweetness of bitter almonds lies primarily in the bitterness itself."
Robert Frost
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"God's first creature was light and his last was woman."
Robert Frost
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"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing."
T.S. Eliot
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"Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."
T.S. Eliot
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"Beauty requires discipline."
T.S. Eliot
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"The pursuit of beauty is the pursuit of truth."
T.S. Eliot
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"Beauty is the only spiritual thing in the world, and the highest form of beauty is truth."
Ezra Pound
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"The greatest beauty lies in simplicity and clarity."
Ezra Pound
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"Beauty exists in resistance, in struggle, in persistence."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Alice Walker
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"Beauty exists even in the midst of pain."
Alice Walker
"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty is seen in a woman's soul."
Maya Angelou
"Beauty belongs to the world, not to one person."
Carl Sandburg
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Carl Sandburg
"Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty."
Carl Sandburg
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"Beauty exists in struggle."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Beauty sustains the soul."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Beauty can be found in the smallest details of nature."
Robert Frost
"The butterfly tattoo was her concession to her youth."
Toni Morrison
"Beauty is how we defend ourselves."
Toni Morrison
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"The beauty of life lies not in its perfection but in its authentic, unguarded moments."
Alice Walker
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"Beauty is found in the struggle, not in the victory."
Richard Wright
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"Beauty lies not in perfection but in authenticity."
Richard Wright
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"Beauty exists in resistance and in persistence."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Beauty exists even in the margins where society has abandoned the forgotten."
Richard Wright
"In the face of adversity, find beauty and grace."
Maya Angelou
"Beauty exists in places society has deemed worthless; we must learn to see it there."
Ralph Ellison
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"The night is beautiful, so the faces of my people."
Langston Hughes