4 Alice Borchardt Quotes on Beauty

Alice Borchardt quotes on beauty

38. You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts

40. [he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me

45. For what is a flower but life's expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time

52. He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers