"Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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“Whatever's lost, it first was won.”
“Tis aye a solemn thing to meTo look upon a babe that sleeps--Wearing in its spirit-deepsThe unrevealed mysteryOf its Adam's taint and woe,Which, when they revealed lie,Will not let it slumber so.”
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”
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“Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”
“The art of art... is simplicity.”
“The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.”
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“Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.”
“All surfeit is the father of much fast.”
“I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.”