Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
Suffolk, Act V, scene iii.
Source: Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.”
Source: Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: A thing final in itself and, therefore, good:
One of the vast repetitions final in
Themselves and, therefore, good, the going round And round and round, the merely going round,
Until merely going round is a final good,
The way wine comes at a table in a wood.
“Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow.”
This second version of Peggy Sanger's death quoted in Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, (2012), Jean H. Baker, Hill and Wang, New York, p. 103. https://www.google.com/#q=%22Peggy+was+sleeping.+Her+pulse+was+so+soft+and+slow%22&tbm=bks
Context: Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow. I was unable to realize that the end was near and had my fingers on her ankle to get the pulse when before my eyes arose another Peggy horizontally sleeping [who] rose about a foot or more—fluttering and quivering a moment as if taking leave of its bondage and slowly and majestically [she] soared and floated across the bed and out through the iron closed door... Peggy had left for the great unknown and beyond.
“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
Source: The Humans
Misattributed
Source: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.
The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914)
