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131. “Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature, Providence, Beauty, Philosophy, Optimism
136. “Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.” Allen Ginsberg Love, Imperfection, Forgiveness, Beauty, Fear, Philosophical Reflection
139. “There may be a class of beings, human once, but now invisible to humanity, to whom, from afar, our disorder may seem order – our unpicturesqueness picturesque, in a word, the earth-angels, for whose scrutiny more especially than our own, and for whose death – refined appreciation of the beautiful, may have been set in array by God the wide landscape-gardens of the hemispheres.” Edgar Allan Poe Humanity, Perception, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Reflection, Artistic Interpretation
141. “When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.” Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Perception, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Artistic Experience
147. “For many miles on either side of the river’s oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.” Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Beauty, Solitude, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Connection, Poetic Expression
Beauty Quotes by Famous Authors
131. “Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. It's smell and it's color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Nature, Providence, Beauty, Philosophy, Optimism
136. “Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.”
Allen Ginsberg Love, Imperfection, Forgiveness, Beauty, Fear, Philosophical Reflection
139. “There may be a class of beings, human once, but now invisible to humanity, to whom, from afar, our disorder may seem order – our unpicturesqueness picturesque, in a word, the earth-angels, for whose scrutiny more especially than our own, and for whose death – refined appreciation of the beautiful, may have been set in array by God the wide landscape-gardens of the hemispheres.”
Edgar Allan Poe Humanity, Perception, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Reflection, Artistic Interpretation
141. “When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.”
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Perception, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Artistic Experience
147. “For many miles on either side of the river’s oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Beauty, Solitude, Philosophical Imagery, Emotional Connection, Poetic Expression
