Pastoral Resources

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.