Maxim 283
Sentences
“It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Words and Beauty http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/words-and-beauty/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Edward Moore (1712–1757) English dramatist and writer
The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
Wole Soyinka (1934) Nigerian writer
The Man Died (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) p. 13.
“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: "Unseasonable Snows", line 13; p. 38, Lyrical Poems (1891)
