Elaine Scarry Quotes
When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.