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I may tell you it is not a small token that a woman loveth when she giveth unto her lover her beauty, which is so precious a matter; and by the ways that be a passage to the soul (that is to say, the sight and the hearing) sendeth the looks of her eyes, the image of her countenance, and the voice of her words, that pierce into the lover’s heart and give a witness of her love.

You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lying on the earth

William Shakespeare

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

There’s no beauty without some sadness or damage, or at least the potential of damage. If something’s unbreakable, you can’t love it because it doesn’t need your love. It’s the thing that don’t last that really move us.

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.””You know more than that,” my father said. “He was beautiful.

As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.

Charlotte Brontë

I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bosom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal- nay, my idol- to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!

If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

Diana Abu-Jaber

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

He smiled. He liked to imagine that she saw the beauty, that she could think outside the well-worn tracks of her countrymen, find something to like about this unsophisticated place. Because that just might mean she could find something to like about him.

Julianne Donaldson

I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love. And I love this, Kate, more than I love anything else. It is beyond beautiful to me. It is home. It is…” He paused, and squinted a little, as if looking into the sun, but his gaze stayed steady on me. “It is the sight I want to see every day, for the rest of my life.