I was half mad with beauty on that day.

William Morris

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Beauty

Author

William Morris

Source

The Defense of Guenevere

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1858 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Designer Artist

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Citation

Morris, William. "The Defence of Guenevere." The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. London: Bell & Daldy, 1858.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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Source
Where I Lived, And What I Lived For Walden
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Where I Lived, And What I Lived For." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

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Beauty

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Roger Scruton
Source
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
2011 2010s 21st century
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Citation

Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.