For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you will never walk alone…
~Sam Levenson, In One Era and Out the Other, 1973
Tag: Beauty
William Butler Yeats Poem
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend….
~William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer for my Daughter”
The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
~ Jack Kerouac
Harvest Moon Poem ~ Carl Sandburg
“Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.”
~ Carl Sandburg
Anne Frank Quote: Beauty
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
–Anne Frank
John Burroughs Quote
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
~ John Burroughs
Autumn Day
“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
~ Diana Gabaldon
