“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
Quoted in "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling" - by David E. Nye - Nature - 2000 - Page 227.
Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189 - 190
Context: I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity, though it seems not to appear elsewhere in the universe. But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, its success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him.
(An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.)
“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.”
undated quotes, M.C. Escher Foundation
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
1870s
“I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.”
As quoted in Debussy : Musician of France (1957) by Victor Illyitch Seroff, p. 172
