Beauty Quote by Anonymous

“The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.”

— Michael Pollan

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass…

— John William Draper

Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of…

— Kate Morton

“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot see the…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Can you understand,' asked my father, 'the deep meaning of that weakness, that passion for colored tissue, for papier-mache, for distemper, for oakum and…

— Bruno Schulz

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the…

— James Russell Lowell

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

— Frederick Lenz

“Breathe gently here, for with fragility all is fraught, Here, in this workshop of the world, where wares of glass are wrought”

— Arundhati Roy

“Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of…

— Thomas Ligotti

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly…

— Vladimir Nabokov