<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The Beauty of Things </span><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things - earth, stone and water,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Beast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The blood-shot beauty of human nature, its thoughts, frenzies and passions,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">And unhuman nature its towering reality -</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">For man’s half dream; man, you might say, is nature dreaming, but rock</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">And water and sky are constant - to feel</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">Beauty, is the sole business of poetry.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The rest’s diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);">The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 22px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robinson Jeffers</div></div></body></html>