“What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.”
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Source: The Remains of the Day
Source: The Remains of the Day
“What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.”
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Source: The Remains of the Day
“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print
“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora
The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Laurell K. Hamilton A Stroke of Midnight
Ivi; p. 147
Source: Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)
Gene Wolfe book Starwater Strains
"In Glory like Their Star", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2001, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
they weren’t always
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)