"The Ancient Dust", page 153
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
“I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere.”
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 79.
Context: I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere. Even in a total war of annihiliation it will not be possible to wipe out all of it. Beauty is too beautiful to perish altogether. In this period of twelve months in solitary confinement I have rarely recalled an unpleasant or ugly glimpse of the past.
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”
Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 40 (pp. 596-597)
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”
"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Source: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section V
