“Don't try to be beautiful. Just be real, and this is already beautiful enough.”
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“These are real and we see their beauty.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"The Great Explosion" in the posthumous publication The Beginning and the End (1973)
Context: He is no God of love, no justice of a little city like
Dante's Florence, no anthropoid God
Making commandments: this is the God who does not
care and will never cease. Look at the seas there
Flashing against this rock in the darkness — look at the
tide-stream stars — and the fall of nations — and dawn
Wandering with wet white feet down the Carmel Valley
to meet the sea. These are real and we see their beauty.
The great explosion is probably only a metaphor — I know
not — of faceless violence, the root of all things.
“I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“I don't want to be a genius — I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
“The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”
Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
On getting back into producing new music, interviewed on "Yusuf Islam's New Album" at CBS News (12 August 2007) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2226452n&tag=related;photovideo <br class="br">Context: A big turning point happened when my son brought back a guitar into the house — You know, 'cause I'd given all those guitars away to charity — way back in 1979 and hadn't really touched the instrument, you know, for like two decades. … So then one day … when everybody's asleep and nobody's watching, I pick it up — and lo and behold, I still know where to put my fingers and out comes this music. I said, "Maybe I've got another job to do." And in this time and period it's probably the best thing I can do because lecturing, politics, God, I've got nothing to do with that. I want to just get heart-to-heart, make sure people understand some of the real subtle beauties of what I've discovered.
