Claudiu
@claudiu
A sparking curious mind
Claudiu
@claudiu
A sparking curious mind
When Dostoyevsky places the phrase “beauty will save the world” in the mouth of Prince Myshkin(from the book, the idiot), it is not offered as a solution, nor even as a belief that can be defended. It arrives instead as a fragile utterance, almost exposed, spoken by a man whose goodness appears maladapted to the world he inhabits. Myshkin is
... See morewe build temples to ideas we no longer believe.
“Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
William Butler Yeats