“It is very beautiful over there!”

“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”

“You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.”

“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”

“… the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.”

“Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.”

“Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which?”

“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.”

“Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.”

“Life is beautiful, just very unfair.”