We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
