“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.” WellsBeautifulGamesSocialSportsClassStreetsHealthyEssentialsEtcPositivelyIntegratingSocial Class Author:Anton Chekhov
“However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.” ThinkingGivingShouldKindEyeBeautifulSpaceLibertyEssentialsDistanceSimplicityVarietyIngredientsYou ChoosePrincipalGrandeur Book:The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition Source: The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition
“In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.” PeopleMomentsBeautifulAnswersEssentialsPartnersDialogueQuestsBeautiful WordsEssential Questions Author:Elie Wiesel
“Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.” LittlesLightBeautifulOrderEssentialsOratoryInsert Author:Isaac Watts