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Elegance is not a profession, elegance is a destiny.

aphorism by Costel Zăgan (8 February 2019)
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

quote by Diana Vreeland
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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Elegance of Peace

Worn torn cities—inner city violence
Death, sorrow and misery
Feelings of discontent
Conceptualize with malcontent—

Atom bombs, nuclear holocaust
Peacemakers of the world
Man-made instrumentation of peace—

So where is the diplomacy in that?
Does it really exist—Hell No!

We speak of peace
With total annihilation
Maybe, because peace/violence
Are mirror twins of each other
Like good and evil—there is no existence without the other—

So is this the elegance of peace— that we speak of?
The peace that we envision for our children
Our ancestors created this fallacy of peace—

This ignorance of peace—created out of fear
The fear that has been nurture
Through centuries of embattlement
For the elegance of peace
The true embodiment of peace
Should not give way to mass-destruction—

Reconstruction of the mind
For the elegance of peace
Is harvested within our minds
Not within our technology—or weapons of destruction—

For Peace has been raped
Violated and reduced
To the ignorance of global insanity
This is our Elegance of Peace
OR IS IT?

Written by
Gregory E Upshaw

poem by Gregory Upshaw
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Emotional Ones

Emotional horses summoned by the wise ones
Elegantly strive and gallop in front of our eyes.
Behind us the whole body of equestrian monsters
Jump properly over the obstacles of our times.
The entire mood has been achieved for looking at,
Moods and the motions beside them are actual.
Jumping and riding is the profession of men who talk
And also occasionally walk like men of understanding.
Elegance summoned the beautiful creatures
And essences of beauty are the reality behind us.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Of Stars and Servants

The stars shine in the nights
and on the stage, they sparkle
with much elegance and might.
They are idolized, iconized,
and spectators get infected
by this great fever as the stars
sparkle and shine.

While from below the ground
the servants lay their lives
in the remotest mountains,
slums, villages and valleys
where human needs are attended,
love and compassion, extended-
not seeking the grandeur
to sparkle and shine on the great stage
but willing to lose themselves-
excluded, secluded, persecuted.

The stars shine in elegance
for themselves
The servants lose themselves
to serve.

poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
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Elegance

The cheetah checked the path ahead
For prey and foe alike...
Yet all was calm, no need to dread,
No need to flee or strike...
No conflicts loomed, no burdens sensed,
No sudden terrors here...
At last his soul felt recompensed
For times he shook with fear.
On making sure that all took place
Without the need for fights,
He simply walked, with gentle grace,
Just taking in the sights.
This therefore meant the time was his,
To do with as he pleased.
Serenity transformed to bliss...
His muscle tension eased.

In moments, he was confident...
As if his heart felt blessed.
As if this day would be well spent...
Because it felt his best.
Taking in the sweet air's fragrance,
Its innocence felt good...
And he exuded elegance,
As if he'd understood...
That life is precious, so sublime...
Enjoy it when you can.
One third asleep, the rest gives time
To think ahead and plan...
And so he walked, to think of schemes,
To make his life worthwhile.
There's nothing wrong with dreaming dreams...
Of elegance and style...

The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Elegance'.

More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

poem by Denis Martindale
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I am from the planet of elegance.

quote by Ron Carter
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Elegance is refusal.

quote by Coco Chanel
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

quote by Robert Fitzgerald
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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

quote by Merry Browne
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What is elegance? Soap and water!

quote by Cecil Beaton
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

quote by Cesar Romero
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

quote by Coco Chanel
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Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

quote by Craig Bruce
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

quote by Henri Poincare
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

quote by Yves Saint Laurent
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?