Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.