"Albert Einstein" in Biographical Memoirs (1980) Vol. 51, National Academy of Sciences.
IV, 20
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
Words and Beauty http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/words-and-beauty/
From the poems written in English
“We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world.”
Bittersweet, Chapter 2 at p. 36
The Vegetarian Way, Proceedings of the 24th World Vegetarian Conference (Madras, India, 1977), p. 34; as quoted in Richard H. Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books, 2001), p. 75 https://archive.org/stream/JudaismAndVegetarianism#page/n99/mode/2up.
Hyperion
Context: What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”
On the subject of criteria he used to judge in The Most Beautiful Tweet contest, Hay Festival 2010[citation needed]
2010s
Source: 2000 - 2011, Cy Twombly, 2000', by David Sylvester (June 2000), p. 173
“Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?”
Act iii, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)
