Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

All things are perceived in the light of charity and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

The beauty of a strong lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

I love the game it's the greatest game on earth that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture or the beauty standard but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

For what the horse does under compulsion as Simon also observes is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Beauty is the disinterested one without which the ancient world refused to understand itself a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world a world of interests leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth goodness beauty love and compassion and also intuition creativity insight and focused attention.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City as they call it - London the people of the south.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.