Quote#Beauty
I ask no more from mortals
Quote byRobert Williams Buchanan · 1841–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Artist and Model..
English (original)
I ask no more from mortals Than your beautiful face implies,— The beauty the artist beholding Interprets and sanctifies. Who says that men have fallen, That life is wretched and rough? I say, the world is lovely, And that loveliness is enough.
— Robert Williams Buchanan
More from Robert Williams Buchanan
Believing hath a core of unbelieving.
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
I saw the starry Tree Eternity Put forth the blossom Time.
Full of a sweet indifference.
Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the light.
O Balder, he who fashion’d us, And bade us live and move, Shall weave for Death’s sad heavenly hair Immortal flowers of love.