“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”
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William Carlos Williams83
American poet 1883–1963Related quotes
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author
Introductory poem.
Poems (1869)
Context: This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.
“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?”
George MacDonald book Phantastes
not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) American clergyman
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 365.
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) German visual artist
Quote from 'A. Beuys in the wilderness', 1974 (lecture at the Ulster Museum); as cited in Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: A Language of Healing, Victoria Walters, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 198
1970's
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness”
Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)
Context: A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
“Expressions are many
but Thy loveliness is one;
Each of us refers
to that single Beauty.”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
