“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
"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.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere.”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979) Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
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.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”
Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw
Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)