“Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.” GivingAgeKnownImagineEasierGiving UpOld AgeAdolescenceChastityChaste Author:Andre Gide
“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.” HumansHas BeensHomeCultureProgressFiguresMovementDivineVictoryGloryExtraordinarySignificantGreekImperfectionCurvesToiletsSweepingMinusChasteSensuousSwellingForward MovementExtraordinary Beauty Author:Edward Weston
“To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.” InspirationalTryingStarsArmsPureWearyChasteImpossible DreamUnreachable Author:Jack Jones
“Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.” IfsHeartSaidScienceHeavenStarsHeardPureEarsHarmonyFilledLovelyMortalsSpheresSymphonyChasteSnowyWheeling Author:John Milton