Helen Kelleresque.

There is another sky,Ever serene and fair,And there is another sunshine,Though it be darkness there;Never mind faded forests, Austin,Never mind silent fields -Here is a little forest,Whose leaf is ever green;Here is a brighter garden,Where...

I took a deep, overly exaggerated breath, the sort of over-the-top gesture that was filmed for commercials about scented laundry detergent, but in this case was my way of trying to absorb every molecule of...

Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the...

people who don’t face their problems head-on are the worst kind of cowards.

Neon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,Beauty she was statue cold – there’s blood upon her gown.

To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on...

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was ‘really like’ are not questions that torture us.

Make each day a beautiful day of your life.

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

Kaderin didn’t believe, as a whole, the nymphs were more beautiful than the Valkyrie, but everything about them screamed, “Easy lay! When you don’t want to work for it!” And curiously, many males found that...

Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree’s summit

They are friends because they are both beautiful specimens of maledom.””Beautiful specimens of maledom?””That’s right. And there are very few of those species in existence presently, so they need to stick together in order to...

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness...

This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It’s a feeling which tells me that...

The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours...

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides …

…eventually tides will be the only calendar you believe in…And someone’s face, whom you love, will be as a starBoth intimate and ultimate, And you will be heart-shaken and respectful. And you will hear the...

Scars are but evidence of life,” Coquette said. “Evidence of choices to be learned from…evidence of wounds…wounds inflicted of mistakes…wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we...

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don’t forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

I hope one daysomebody loves youso muchthat they see violetsin the bags under your eyes,sunsets in the downward archof your lipsthat they recognize youas something green,something fresh and still growingeven if sometimesyou are growing sidewaysthat...

” That’s nonsense young one, Your dreams are not very logical ” – ” The only non-sense I see here, is a living a life; blinded, By all that could have taken your breath away.

There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable...

By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. Only two or three...

It is another unsolved mystery in a world full of unsolved mysteries.Now stand up and walk out the way you came, and the moment that fresh air caresses your face, you will realize that that...

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate...

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn’t do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross...

People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.

I hope so. But I meant me. I’m beautiful to me.

Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking forToday I...

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Timer – timer i fjeldene. I mørke kan hænde, i uveir og kamp – Og de lyse, ugripelige, de av forfærdelig skjønhet. Dem du nødig nævner, og aldri kan dele med nogen, fordi de tilhører...

The poet believed that ‘Beauty’ first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The...

The simple truth is that love is a part of who we are, not something that others “give” to us if we’re worthy of it. We’re taught that if we just find that right person,...

She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the...

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right,...

In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death...

young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face...