Beauty is our weapon against nature; kwa it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
-Camille Paglia
Break a vase, and the upendo that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that upendo which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-Derek Walcott
Guided only kwa their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired kwa the art of mathematics rather than kwa any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
-E. T. kengele
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