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Read MorePaul Edward Costa The Lone and Level Sands Will Stretch Far Away We once created intricate...
Read MoreBeauty is magic. Beauty is the daydream we get lost in.
Read More“I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.”
Read MoreI believe that beauty comes from deep within our souls—the very nucleus—where our passions, not only joys but also our sorrows, reside.
Read MoreIt is left to each of us to determine what strangeness might be in a work of art.
Read More“Beauty is dynamic and built on context and relationships, we find it fascinating and elusive, the flashes of fire in an opal, the way the words of a beloved character remind us inexplicably of a grandmother, the shimmer of reflected cypress trees in a still lake.”
Read MoreI want to make music for things that have no anthems. I want to conjure warm stories from cold ashes. Gathering wreckage into a balanced, harmonious form is not a betrayal of the truth, but rather a resurrection as true as any fall.
Read MoreWe can choose how we will react to the world and people around us. We can make it a daily plan to forgive those who have hurt us. We can choose love. We can also choose to set a goal for ourselves, to do one thing of beauty each day.
Read MoreI’ve come to discover beauty in the everyday. In that lumpy heirloom tomato, the fresh shiny ebony paint on the stair rail, the gleam of slanted sunlight ricocheting off a silver vase – beauty valuable in its tiny moments, deflecting, sometimes, the ugliness we endure these days in our wide world. It has to be enough.
Read MoreThe purpose of life is to create beauty, and the forms that beauty can take are infinite.
Read MoreWhat I see as beautiful is the gifts of this season. Today’s ripe Oregon strawberries, the smell of one of my pink rosebushes and then the mock orange that bloomed for the first time this year. The promise in my garden of ripe tomatoes and pea pods in the weeks ahead.
Read MoreBeauty is refusing to be beaten: dwarfed by decades but dressed like a teen with summer slipped over a bright bikini, blonde hair, outrageously large sunglasses. She went up an elevator in a shopping mall while a young couple came down, looked down, noticed, sniggered, whispered about this youthful soul refusing to age appropriately.
Read MoreMany of us secretly or openly know that to acknowledge our love for beauty and to praise its presence is the best way to pray our gratitude for this gorgeous chance of wandering about in a conscious manifestation.
Read MoreI think the mind creates its world. It houses the keys to form. The museum is not an actual place but a context of memory, association, and intense focus. Beauty is the spirit level that reminds us we are alive.
Read MoreThe process of making beauty is, to me, getting the conscious, ego-clamoring mind out of the way, and letting the experience speak for itself, or becoming the conduit for what generous work the subconscious has done.
Read MoreA moment of surprise, the unexpected suddenly thrust into view, disrupting whatever anxious reverie or immediate concerns had been preoccupying me
Read MoreBeauty changes you, if only for a subtle moment. It strengthens the pulse, gathers and releases breath, expands the heart, glows in the mind. Unless you shut it out, beauty engages you in a relationship…
Read MoreRather than being observed or judged, beauty must be discovered and absorbed through the lens of amazement (…) The world is sacramental beauty and all within it wear a crown.
Read MoreOur task is to pay attention, to notice that glint of sunlight on the water, the drops of dew on blades of grass, the red flash of a cardinal against a gray winter day, fireflies blinking in the dark, and stars scattered like glitter across the black northern sky.
Read MoreIf art is the way in which the artist is grasping the world, beauty stands for the emotion it creates in the eyes and mind of the observer. The ability to respond to art translates into the act of beauty which is on-going and engaging.
Read MoreWhen I lived in Manhattan, I found West 10th Street beautiful. Now, in rural Tennessee, I get as much pleasure from the belted Galloway cattle. Much of beauty seems to depend on what you get to see, on what is around you.
Read MoreAndrey Guschin identifies himself as a “neo-archeist” poet, and the primary attraction to me as a translator of his lively and inventive formal verses was that what I view as a resurgence of the use of archaism and archaic words in contemporary American poetry, may yield for the work a readership in English.
Read MoreFor my poetry, I make lists of “shiny things,” the mundane and random details of my days. I populate my poems with these. I adore the beauty in my goat Rye dancing, the fringe of pine needles hanging in my manzanita tree, and a website dedicated to artful, competitive shoelace tying.
Read MoreBeauty will always resist too much of our taking things apart to take a look inside, which isn’t too say that beauty cannot be analyzed. But there comes a point when the mystery of what’s puzzled over exceeds whatever pieces are missing, which may not be missing at all.
Read MoreThe closer you get to becoming yourself, the more beauty you see. When I can see the world as it is, I will weep with the beauty and laugh with the beauty and all the imaginary shackles will disappear.
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Read MoreI choose to embrace my own beauty and see beauty around me and illuminate it for my audience. Noticing and appreciating beauty will bring you joy.
Read MoreBeauty is the divine and finding beauty in life’s everyday moments is what makes us human, what makes us alive.
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