Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.


Beauty. - The Conduct of Life (1860)


Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.