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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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