Gary Shteyngart Quotes

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.

No matter if you're a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer's eyes. I don't know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn't matter. And when he sings. It's like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more.

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.