Hymn To Intellectual Beauty

Famous quotes containing the words hymn, intellectual and/or beauty:

“The starting point of the human and the end,
That in which space itself is contained, the gate
To the enclosure, day, the things illumined
By day, night and that which night illumines,
Night and its midnight-minting fragrances,
Night’s hymn of the rock, as in a vivid sleep.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“If Cassio do remain,
He hath a daily beauty in his life
That makes me ugly.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)