beauty from song of solomon 4

If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light—yet perhaps the . . . unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar...

Beauty will save the world.

I would later learn that these are two characteristics of beauty: it never stays, and it never fully satisfies.

I did not have to ask my heart what it wanted, because of all the desires I have ever known, just one did I cling to for it was the essence of all desire: to hold beauty in my soul’s arms.

Oh God help me believe the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is!

Beauty is that which, when seen, pleases.