{"quotes":[{"text":"I woke to the sound of rain.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["beauty-in-literature","rain","simple","subtle"],"id":21724,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don’t notice at what point that you’re actually overwhelmed by this. There’s no showiness, at all. It’s the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be very grey abstract, almost, with some lines and very, very beautiful. But you wouldn’t have a notion of where the beauty was.(Talking about the short stories of Alistair MacLeod, who he discovered while working on The Modern Library.).","author":"Colm Tóibín","tags":["beauty-in-literature","fiction","short-stories"],"id":39661,"author_id":"Colm+T%C3%B3ib%C3%ADn"},{"text":"My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["beauty-in-literature","beauty-song","love-poetry","love-song","love-songs","love-story","lovely","morning","morning-song-poetry","ode","ode-to-joy","pastoral","pastorale","pastoralist","poeme","poetry","poetry-love","roman-payne","serenade","soliloquies","soliloquy","soul","soul-mate","sunlight","waking","waking-life","waking-up","wanderess"],"id":47193,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["beautiful","beauty","beauty-in-literature"],"id":54375,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["afraid","beauty","beauty-in-literature","beauty-in-nature","bed","death","despair","fear","female","feminine","love","night","nocturnal","passing","passing-of-time","passion","payne","roman","roman-payne","woman","women"],"id":67912,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Real beauty has no boundaries’.","author":"Prajakta Mhadnak","tags":["beauty","beauty-in-literature","beauty-in-nature"],"id":183586,"author_id":"Prajakta+Mhadnak"},{"text":"Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["beauty","beauty-in-literature","beauty-in-nature","beauty-of-life","beauty-of-nature","beauty","eternity","eternity-and-attitude","eternity","eternity","eternity-springs","inspirational","mindfulness","mindfulness-practice","nature","nature-s-beauty","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","time","time","timelessness"],"id":188460,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["admirable-qualities","admiration","art","beauty","beauty-in-literature","birth","face","faces","fatherhood","feminine","femininity","gaze","gazing","girl","girls","literary","literary","literature","literature","model","muse","novels","paint","painting","parenthood","payne","perceftion","prose","roma","roman-payne","sculpting","sculpture","sculpturing","the-wanderess","wanderess"],"id":212159,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.","author":"Lorii Myers","tags":["awareness","beauty","beauty-in-literature","beauty-in-nature","compassion","insight","understanding"],"id":215597,"author_id":"Lorii+Myers"},{"text":"Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently loose, the secret selves that these familiar persons hold inside them shake the room...An undercurrent of clowning and jostling is part of the process by which we succeed finally in making our necessary noise: despite the difficulty of getting the words right, of getting the singers on the same page, of keeping the ritual from falling apart into the anarchy of separate impulses. From such clatter--extended and punctuated by whatever instrument is handy, a triangle a tambourine, a Chinese gone--beauty is born.","author":"Geoffrey O'Brien","tags":["barriers","beauty-in-literature","carol","christmas","family","singing-with-your-heart","sound"],"id":284080,"author_id":"Geoffrey+O%27Brien"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}