“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “I’m not out here to win a beauty contest.”– Kirk Gibson “Sometimes I think I might not have written ‘The Age of Miracles’ if I hadn’t grown up in California, if I hadn’t been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”– Karen Thompson Walker “There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”– Anna Quindlen