Quote#Beauty
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare
Quote byEdna St. Vincent Millay · 1892–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923).
English (original)
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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