The World Motivation
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
No more let life divide what death can join together.
The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.