Loveliness Quotes

• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Color, Green World

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  George Washington Carver

  Good Morning, Beauty, Beautiful

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Beauty, Elude Us, Attention

  Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Spring, Soul

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

  George MacDonald

  Mold, Fingers

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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• Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Love, Beauty, Sympathy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• She is loveliness itself.

  Jane Austen

  Women

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.26, Wild Jot Press

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• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

  Adeline Knapp

  Mistake, Rain, Water

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• Spend all you have for loveliness.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Heart, Earth, Unbearable

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Years, White

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Flower, Metta, Loving Kindness

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• The rose saith in the dewy morn,
  I am most fair;
  Yet all my loveliness is born
  Upon a thorn.

  Christina Rossetti

  Rose, Born, Fairs

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

  William Henry Hudson

  Flower, Moving, Bird

  William Henry Hudson (2010). “Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest”, p.111, The Floating Press

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• Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Eden, Forever, Fit

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Mother, Memories

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

  John Keats

  Two, Luxury, Literature

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

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• Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

  Thomas Hardy

  Love, Nature, Light

  Time's Laughing Stocks (1909) "Let me Enjoy"

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• She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Would Be, Longing, Thirsty

  Jean Rhys (2001). “Wide Sargasso Sea”, Gardners Books

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• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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