Wallace Stevens On Beauty
Beauty is momentary in the mind--
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
from "Peter Quince at the Clavier" (1915)
posted by Sidi Hamid Benengeli | 1:03 PM
The Mazeppist
A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.
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- Name: Sidi Hamid Benengeli
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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Beauty is momentary in the mind--
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
from "Peter Quince at the Clavier" (1915)
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