Beauty

"Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;
neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
--Proverbs 6:25 (this from Solomon who had some 600 concubines and many hundred wives! I guess he should know!)

"Beauty is the gift of God."
--Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, V 18

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Rhodora


Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it. . .
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, is intuition.
--D. H. Lawrence, Sex Versus Loveliness