Beauty Quote by E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to…

— E. B. White

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly…

— Anonymous

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

— John Keats

“O lover – whosoever you are – know that the veils between you and your beloved – whosoever he might be – are nothing…

— Ibn al-Arabī

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see…

— T.S. Eliot

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In Silence the heart illumines; veil after veil is removed.In the heart shines the Light of Love.When the Light of Love is seen shining…

— Kirpal Singh

“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the trodden path,…

— Erik Pevernagie

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

— Egerton Brydges

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or…

— Robinson Jeffers

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe