Beauty

Beauty

Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

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    Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    a mind
    That nobleness made simple as a fire,
    With beauty like a tightened bow,
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Lies grow dark around us: will
    The statue of your beauty walk?
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)