The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.