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Beautiful Quotes - Page 303

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

William Wordsworth, Robert Burns (1816). “A letter to a friend of Robert Burns occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the life of Burns, by dr. Currie [in The works of Robert Burns].”, p.18

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.354, Wordsworth Editions

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.76

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world

William Brighty Rands (1871). “Lilliput Lectures”, p.22