Is There Anything More Valuable Than Beauty in the Bible?

I know one of the ways in which the bible is appreciated, even by some of its harshest critics and deeply atheistic people, is as a work of literature. I'm wondering if there's any particular passages or o parts of it that you find particularly have struck you in that way? Well, the ones that have really opened up to me, i think, are the stories in genesis, right up to the tower of babel, because i think i've got some sense of what they mean and why. And we we ignore it at our our spiritual and economic peril....