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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's
self and beauty's giver.
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (l. 34-35). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships....
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Islands.")
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I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflexions
Or the beauty of innuendos,
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (l. 13-15). . .
Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.)
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For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Sheltered Garden.")
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
(Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Introduction (1756).)
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Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love.
(Thomas Campion (1567-1620), British poet. Thou Art Not Fair (l. 5-6). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"Mthat is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 5, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820).
Closing lines.)
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Things thought too long can be no longer thought
For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth,
And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Gyres.")
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