“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
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
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
— John Steinbeck, book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden
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“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
“Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) Dutch painter
Source: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“Truth is more beautiful than dreams”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: What is there within us to-night? What is this sound of wings? Are our eyes opening as fast as night falls? Formerly, we had the sensual lovers' animal dread of nothingness; but to-day, the simplest and richest proof of our love is that the supreme meaning of death to us is — leaving each other.
And the bond of the flesh — neither are we afraid to think and speak of that, saying that we were so joined together that we knew each other completely, that our bodies have searched each other. This memory, this brand in the flesh, has its profound value; and the preference which reciprocally graces two beings like ourselves is made of all that they have and all that they had.
I stand up in front of Marie — already almost a convert — and I tremble and totter, so much is my heart my master: —
"Truth is more beautiful than dreams, you see."
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
Matt Haig (1975) British writer
Source: The Humans
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713) English politician and Earl
Vol. 1, p. 77; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: The Complete Poems
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
"Packard Goose"
"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variant: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.