Eternal Beauty

The heaven that rolls

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory – of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each … Read more

An author should never

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom. C. S. Lewis

Here then is the

Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes. Arthur Machen

Think of all the

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

How happy is the

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Alexander Pope

The world forgetting, by

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d Alexander Pope

Day by day we

Day by day we are building for eternity … Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come. Rebecca Ruter Springer

The problem of restoring

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson