Intangible Beauty Quotes

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.