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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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A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world—the beauty of speed.
(Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian playwright. repr. In Marinetti: Selected Writings, ed. by R.W. Flint (1971). "Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism," Figaro (Paris, Feb. 20, 1909).)
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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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For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Sheltered Garden.")
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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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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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"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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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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Man, she looked as though she'd been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife. But a natural beauty. A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.
(Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal), Detour, narrating as he thinks about his hitchhiker, Vera (Ann Savage) (1945).
Based on Goldsmith's original story.)
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