Robert Seymour Bridges: Quotes about beauty

Robert Seymour Bridges was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on beauty.
Robert Seymour Bridges: 86   quotes 16   likes

“Scatter the clouds that hide
The face of heaven, and show
Where sweet peace doth abide,
Where Truth and Beauty grow.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Morning Hymn.
Poetry

Truth , Peace , Beauty

“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry

Secret , Beauty , Nature

“Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 1-2.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Wisdom , God , Beauty , Angels

“And now impatiently despairest, see
How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired
Splended for others' eyes if not for thee:
Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled:
If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Melancholia http://www.sonnets.org/bridges.htm, st. 2.
Poetry

Love , Wisdom , Youth , Beauty

“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences,
the quality of appearances that thru' the sense
wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book II, lines 842-844.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

Beauty , Sense , Appearance