
“Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.”
Source: To Bedlam and Part Way Back
Source: The Reader
“Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.”
Source: To Bedlam and Part Way Back
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
Mr. Wharton in Ch. IV
Esther: A Novel (1884)
“I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.”
Voces (1943)
“One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her.”
Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère.
Et je l'ai injuriée.
Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
“I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.”