#poetry

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more. ↗

— Tony Hoagland

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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured out and roses bloom and frail chervil and flowering sweetclover. But she goes back and forth remembering gentle Atthis and in longing she bites her tender mind ↗

— Sappho

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ↗

— E.B. White

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]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray ↗

— Sappho

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To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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...I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face... ↗

— John Geddes

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