“Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”
Source: The Iliad
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Homér 217
Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the OdysseyRelated quotes

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 71

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Canto V, line 33
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
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“The terrible beautiful Life.”
version in original Flemish (citaat van Roger Raveel, in het Vlaams): Het verschrikkelijke mooie leven.
title of his painting / installation - including birdcage and two living canaries, Raveel made in 1965 (translation: Fons Heijnsbroek)
1960's