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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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Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Each and All," Poems (1847).)
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Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Each and All," Poems (1847).)
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We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.
(D.W. (David Wark) Griffith (1874-1948), U.S. producer-director. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).
Referring in 1928 to the new talking pictures.)
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What blessed you
that you sit,
sedately no harlot
a witness
as years pass,
to beauty?
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Other Sea-Cities.")
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We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.
(D.W. (David Wark) Griffith (1874-1948), U.S. producer-director. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).
Referring in 1928 to the new talking pictures.)
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Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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What blessed you
that you sit,
sedately no harlot
a witness
as years pass,
to beauty?
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Other Sea-Cities.")
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