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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being
Beauty is its own excuse for being
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statutes or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
Let other Bards of Angels sing
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
Laodamia
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight,
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
Like twilights too her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
When first she gleamed upon my sight,
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
Like twilights too her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
She was a Phantom of Delight
For such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufflcient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufflcient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921. A Prayer for My Daughter
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