Hymn To Intellectual Beauty

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

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
—Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)

“Was it an intellectual consequence of this ‘rebirth,’ of this new dignity and rigor, that, at about the same time, his sense of beauty was observed to undergo an almost excessive resurgence, that his style took on the noble purity, simplicity and symmetry that were to set upon all his subsequent works that so evident and evidently intentional stamp of the classical master.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“Their beauty has thickened.
Something is pushing them
To the side of their own lives.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)