Quote by Walter Pater
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to defin

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. – Walter Pater

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Grace in women has more effect than beauty. – William Hazlitt

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk

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Im from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island. – Evangeline Lilly

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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didnt mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. – Johnny Depp

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