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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Beauty – Fragments of Three Poems
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that ‘s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.– George Gordon Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone …(Read more …)
– Sam Levenson, “Time-Tested Beauty Tips”
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They say the body accepts any kind of sorrow,
that our ancestors lay down on their stomachs
in school hallways, as children they lay down
like matches waiting for a nuclear fire.It wasn’t supposed to end like this:
all ruin and beauty, vines waterfalling down
a century’s architecture; it wasn’t supposed to end
so quietly, without fanfare or fuss,– Patricia Young, “Ruin and Beauty”
Beauty is a problem for poetry because we no longer imagine beauty as a serious way of knowing.
But it is. Beauty wedges into the artistic space a structure for continuously imagining what we do not know. This claim reverses Shelley’s formulation of poetry as the place where we “imagine that which we know,” which presumes that creativity translates knowledge into imagination. Our general lack of response to beauty nowadays–at least in critical literature–results, among other things, from an intuitive sense that beauty defies such translation. We can neither measure the knowledge that Shelley’s imagination turns to beauty, nor can we translate that beauty back into its components of knowledge and imagination.
– Lisa Samuels, “Introduction to Poetry and the Problem of Beauty”
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“Beauty”
by – Shaye