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 fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. - Elaine Scarry
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
- Elaine Scarry
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… - Elaine Scarry
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…
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… - Elaine Scarry
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…
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. - Elaine Scarry
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.
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… - Elaine Scarry
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 always takes place in the particular. - Elaine Scarry
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someon… - Elaine Scarry
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 brings copies of itself into being. - Elaine Scarry
Beauty brings copies of itself into being.
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. … - Elaine Scarry
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. …
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