Beauty Quote by Lord Dunsany

“[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

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and…

— James Gates Percival

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

“Ars Poetica II" I find, after all these years, I am a believer— I believe what the thunder and lightning have to say; I…

— Charles Wright

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar…

— May Sarton

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but…

— Ruth Pitter

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They…

— Stanley Kunitz

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley