“my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.”— Pablo Neruda Related Quotes “Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.”– Charles Baudelaire “Are women beautiful or aren’t we?”— Naomi Wolf “For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.”— Longus