The Beauty of Things - Robinson Jeffers

[Larry Robinson]

The Beauty of Things 

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.

		- Robinson Jeffers
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