The Beauty of Things
rj
To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things--
...earth, stone and water,
Beast, man and woman, sun moon and stars--
The blood-shot beauty of human nature, its thoughts,
...frenzies and passions,
And unhuman nature its towering reality--
For man's half dream; man, you might say, is nature
...dreaming, but rock
And water and sky are constant--to feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the
...natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry.
The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the
...intricate ideas,
The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
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Jak pocza¸tek objawienia, ale jakiego, nie wiedza¸, bo nigdy
nie posta¸pi dalej niz· pocza¸tek.
Page 19-The Separate Notebooks
Czeslaw Milosz
As the beginning of a revelation - what kind they don't
know-- because it will never advance beyond its beginning.
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[a tear
a smile
congrat
and
that
special cocktail are in order,
and duly presented
Nancy
just for you-
Light it & Run!] |
