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“Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?”

Doe Might Beauty Rose

Author:Robert Breault

“Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.”

World Light Spirit Consciousness Beauty Sea Sweet Essentials Rose Impulse Dawn Divinity Sensible Exalted Loveliness Light Of The World

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.”

Way Want Mean Beautiful Beauty Flower Embrace Rose Uniqueness Sunflower Peonies

Author:Miranda Kerr

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”

Said Simple Beauty Rose Simplicity Hunger Smell Ecstasy Perfume

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”

World Trying Humans Littles Made Beautiful Given Enjoy Human Beings Beauty Sea This World Tasks Rose Sunset Truthful Beautiful Things Sublime Dew Transcendent Beautiful Sunset

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.”

Ifs Way Light Pain Turns Sleep Beauty Sun Learning Sky Brother Rose Impulse Poison Candle Bows Caves

Author:Rumi

“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”

Dies Wish Felt Silence Beauty Morning Growing Wall Summer Garden Window Eternity Green Rose Cups Beauty Of Life Flowering Wish To Die Green Things

Author:A. L. Rowse

“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.”

Beautiful Remember Names Beauty Rose Dust Slumber Being Beautiful

Book:Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“One rose is enough for the dawn”

Enough Beauty Rose Dawn

Book:The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book

Source: The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book

“Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.”

Beauty Fairs Rose Clouds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)