Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry... →
Johan Huizinga
Culture means control over nature.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those... →
Wilhelm von Humboldt
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and... →