"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." ― Rabindranath Tagore Topic(s): Beauty More From Rabindranath Tagore "Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol." "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." "Age considers; youth ventures." More In Beauty "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?"― Richard P. Feynman "The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."― Robert Musil "Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe."― Emily Mortimer