<p>À dolorosa luz das grandes lâmpadas eléctricas da fábrica
Tenho febre e escrevo.
Escrevo rangendo os dentes, fera para a beleza disto,
Para a beleza disto totalmente desconhecida dos antigos.</p><p>Ó rodas, ó engrenagens, r-r-r-r-r-r-r eterno!
Forte espasmo retido dos maquinismos em fúria!
Em fúria fora e dentro de mim,
Por todos os meus nervos dissecados fora,
Por todas as papilas fora de tudo com que eu sinto!
Tenho os lábios secos, ó grandes ruídos modernos,
De vos ouvir demasiadamente de perto,
E arde-me a cabeça de vos querer cantar com um excesso
De expressão de todas as minhas sensações,
Com um excesso contemporâneo de vós, ó máquinas!</p>
Álvaro de Campos (heteronym), Ode Triunfal ["Triumphal Ode"] (1914), in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
“Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.”
1920's
Source: Quote from Breton's novel Nadja (1928), final sentence
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Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
Source: The Complete Poems
“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.”
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”
Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=4c8fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Zest+is+the+secret+of+all+beauty+There+is+no+beauty+that+is+attractive+without+zest%22&pg=PA90#v=onepage
“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”
“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
“There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.”
Source: 1970s, Krishnamurti's Notebook (1976), p. 166
“All beauty is sad. For it fades.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 16