Genius Quote by Madame de Stael

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Robin Williams

“What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our sense of…

— Susan Sontag

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light,…

— William Law

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

— Aberjhani

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

— Edward Abbey

“We must "distil favorable ideas and sentiments in our soul," and must then transform these abstract ideas into warm, living, affective feelings.”

— Jules Payot

“The world had courage, faith, beauty, and love, and it had music, which, although not merely an abstraction, was equal to the greatest abstractions…

— Mark Helprin

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

— John Burroughs

The spectrum of love merges and focuses all of the arts of living.

— Nate

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

— Robert Browning

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

— Geoff Ryman