I’m for copying down anything that acknowledges that beauty is not just in our heads or senses, but is a deep thing of the soul. You must to say this to honestly acknowledge the power of music, or the beauty of a woman.
There is all the difference between fancying there are fairies in the wood, which often only means fancying a certain wood as fit for fairies, and really frightening ourselves until we walk a mile rather than pass a house we have told ourselves is haunted. Behind all these things is the fact that beauty and terror are very real things and related to a real spiritual world; and to touch them at all, even in doubt or fancy, is to stir the deep things of the soul.
-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, p.120