Alexander Smith Quotes

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.

An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?