How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.