James Montgomery Quotes

'Flower' is about the sublime.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.

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

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

With wonder, admiration, and reverential awe, one may contemplate the vastness with which he finds himself here surrounded, the perfusion of nature's bounties, and sublimity of scenery, but to describe them, to picture them as they are, is beyond the scope of human capacity.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.