I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
Date of birth: 1788-01-22
Date of death: 1824-04-19
Quotes number: 32
Nationality: Scottish
Profession: Poet
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!