Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Beauty would save the world.

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

Beauty is its own excuse.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.