writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. β Alice Childress
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves β Lorna Goodison
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. β James A. Michener
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. β William Wordsworth
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course β Syd Field
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. β Ani DiFranco
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. β Rumi
Short Writes Quotes
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless β Zaha Hadid
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. β Robert Bresson
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. β Richard Brautigan
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. β Patrick Dennis
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. β Edgar Allan Poe
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Most Beautiful Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. β Helen Keller
The most beautiful curve on a womanβs body is her smile. β Bob Marley
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. β Sigmund Freud
The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special β Bob Marley
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. β Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever knownβand even that is an understatement. β F. Scott Fitzgerald
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. β Adrian Frutiger
Δ°stanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world. β Gerard De Nerval
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. β Mark Twain
What Is Beautiful Quotes
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. β Henry David Thoreau
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. β Swami Vivekananda
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. β Saint Peter
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." β Layne Beachley
Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly. β Gerard Way
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. β Anton Chekhov
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. β Leonardo da Vinci
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. β Rigoberta Menchu
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. β Marilyn Monroe
Beautifully Written Quotes
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. β Eleanor Roosevelt
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. β Lydia M. Child
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. β Edward Steichen
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. β Dmitri Shostakovich
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. β Florence Littauer
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate those drives is the secret to success and happiness. This is a smart and beautifully written book, and it will electrify your life. Get this book! β Daniel Amen
Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. β Saoirse Ronan
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word. β John Newton
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it β Danielle Trussoni
A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it. β Richard Ayoade
Beautiful Prose Quotes
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. β Lafcadio Hearn
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days). β Ian McEwan
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. β John Cheever
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. β W. Somerset Maugham
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. β Horace Walpole
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going. β Elizabeth Wein
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! β Robert Evans
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency. β James Kelman
The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work. β Julianna Baggott
Beautiful Poetry Quotes
The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners. β Hafez
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. β Matsuo Basho
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love β Leonard Cohen
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. β D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew. β Louis Aragon
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes. β Lord Byron
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... β Robert Frost
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men. β Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment. β Maxine Hong Kingston
Beautiful Words Quotes
Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies. β Paulo Coelho
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful wordβa little prayer wordβwill fill him with music and will lead him into victory. β Kenneth E. Hagin
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. β Walt Whitman
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.. You need to start somewhere.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. β Blaise Pascal
Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. β Nikola Tesla
Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic. β John Lennox
Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe. β Masaru Emoto
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. β Philip Wollen
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people. β Elie Wiesel
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. β Yehudi Menuhin
Beautiful Photography Quotes
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. β Saul Leiter
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. β Gregory Crewdson
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. β Matt Hardy
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. β Auguste Rodin
The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, itβs unlimited capacity, in theory. β Eric Yuan
The world is full of beauty, you are the greatest proof of this. β Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. β Jay Maisel
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. β Alberto Korda
I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story. β Seamus McGarvey
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity. β Horst P. Horst
Beautiful Music Quotes
love the life you live. live the life you love. β Bob Marley
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two. β Frederic Chopin
Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, itβs not a cause. It is what it is-and thatβs a beautiful artform. β Synyster Gates
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST. β Frank Zappa
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles and difficulties. Music is nourishment, a comforting elixir. Music multiplies all that is beautiful and of value in life. β Zoltan Kodaly
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major. β Sergei Prokofiev
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. β Tom Waits
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird. β Matthew Healy
Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true worshipper, your heart will long to worship Him at all times, in all ways and with all your life. β Darlene Zschech
From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places. β Jon Foreman
Very Beautiful Quotes
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough. β Vera Nazarian
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. β George Balanchine
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. β Kailash Satyarthi
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last. β Ronaldinho
Take the roseβmost people think it very beautiful: I donβt care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life. β Charles Proteus Steinmetz
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. β Laura Gilpin
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. β Brigitte Bardot
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep. β Ajahn Brahm
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. β Hannah Kent
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I can't'. They say it's taboo. It's ingrained in our heads that it's bad, when it's not bad at all. It's a very beautiful thing. β Billie Joe Armstrong
Beautiful Creation Quotes
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful. β Alex Grey
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. β Francis Collins
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. β Annie Dillard
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. β Savitri Devi
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery! β Clarice Cliff
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. β Charlie Cook
Thereβs a beautiful symmetry to it across all knowledge creation. Itβs ultimately an act of creativity. β Naval Ravikant
I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. β Tyra Banks
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. β Meher Baba
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. β Mahatma Gandhi
Beautiful Art Quotes
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. β Georgia O'Keeffe
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. β Augusta Savage
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. β Vincent Van Gogh
I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art. β Rich Mullins
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. β Albert Einstein
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion. β William Kentridge
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. β Albert Einstein
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about. β Louise Bourgeois
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. β Ritwik Ghatak
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. β Emile Zola
Simply Beautiful Quotes
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. β Evelyn Waugh
It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling. β Svetlana Khorkina
The moment of twilight is simply beautiful. β John Glenn
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. β Henry Miller
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating. β Lilian Whiting
I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now Iβve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor. β Jim Palmer
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale. β Edouard Vuillard
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. β Sharon Stone
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young. β Osamu Dazai
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. β Sylvia Plath
When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey. β Randy Moss
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. β William Arthur Ward
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. β Merle Haggard
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. β Martin Luther
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. β Franz Kafka
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