How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things..

Beauty always takes place in the particular..

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugi….

Beauty brings copies of itself into being..

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space..

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someon….

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently pro….

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. ….

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the p….