Enduring Beauty Quotes

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Art is forever.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

Castles, palaces, cathedrals, fortresses, all speak in their various ways of the greatness and the strength of the people who built them and against whom they were built. This real greatness shines through the fake grandeur of rulers and endows these buildings with a lasting beauty.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.