Quotes on Creating Beauty

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.