"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!" ― Barry Cornwall Topic(s): Beauty More From Barry Cornwall "Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne." "Death is the tyrant of the imagination." More In Beauty "Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides."― Junichiro Tanizaki "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."― Gaston Bachelard "It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction."― Richard Le Gallienne