Search results for “beauty”
John Cheever on the Pain of Loneliness and How It Feeds the Beauty and Creative Restlessness of Youth
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
Baudelaire on Beauty and Strangeness
“Beauty always has an element of strangeness… simple, unintended, unconscious strangeness [which] gives it the right to be called beauty.”
Feathers: A Stunning Photographic Love Letter to Evolution’s Masterpiece and Its Astonishing Array of Beauty
Art meets science in a poetic celebration of Earth’s astonishing diversity.
Frida Kahlo on How Love Amplifies Beauty: Her Breathtaking Tribute to Diego Rivera
“I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow.”
Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty Amid the Wreckage of the Soul
“Life is beautiful in spite of everything! … There are many thorns, but the roses are there too.”
James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe’s Forgotten Conversation About Beauty, Morality, and the Political Power of Art
“Those who tell you ‘Do not put too much politics in your art’ are not being honest. If you look very carefully you will see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is… What they are saying is don’t upset the system.”
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: Astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser on the Transcendence of Nature and Fishing as a Metaphor for the Pursuit of Knowledge
“We are surrounded by mystery, by what we don’t know and, more dramatically, by what we can’t know.”
Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
A Nonbeliever’s Case for the Bible: How a Secular Reading of Scripture Enlarges Our Experience of Beauty, Morality, and Transcendence
From Blake to Bach, why the ancient text long stripped of fact remains essential to our grasp of poetic truth.
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