Beauty Quote by Dorianne Laux Download Open image ““… They are savage for knowledge, for beauty and truth. They crawl on their knees to find it.”” — Dorianne Laux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Truth
“We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for them to accept than the truth, which is that they can’t know everything about people and why they act the way… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“You can learn more about people from their instruments of torture than you can from their works of beauty.” — James Maxwell Copy Share Image
“But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?” — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share
The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity, maybe,… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share
We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity, and still be human. — Tool Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it. — Tumblr Copy Share Image