“Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.” WorldAgeEarthBeautifulHalfDivineFlowerBirdInnocentGoldenUselessButterflyBeautiful ThingsWiserJoyousGolden Age Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.” WorldEndsBeautifulBeautyThis WorldBlameUselessProportionPermissionBeautiful ThingsHammersRubiesEmeralds Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories