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You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Viewed on November 26, 2009
Contribution #3645
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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The Courage to Create
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is a marriage of craft and imagination.
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Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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I would define poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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A good gardener starts as a good weeder.
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Let us contemplate the one simple nature of that peaceful unity which joins all things to itself and to each other, preserving them in their distinctiveness and yet linking them together in a universal and unconfused alliance.
--Many Voices / One Truth / Spirit of the World
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wants...the soul waits.
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.
The soul of Music is of the Spirit, and her mind is of the Heart.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 57-58
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it's what we do with them that is important.
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Let the beauty we love be what we do; there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good--it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will find it not.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
...he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always served beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organizing life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation - and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear... which binds together all humanity - the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been
kindness, beauty and truth.
You see things; and
you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
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Bible
Genesis
1:31
Version or Translation NASV
Published by Lockman Foundation
Published in La Habra, USA
Published in 1960
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Plato
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #160
What does creating beauty look like in a person?
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