<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452405" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Secret</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rereading Beauty and the Beast recounted in World <br>of Fairytales, struck by the sense of loss when Beast <br>turns into just another prince – I began to dream of a <br>Beast who remains such, only gruffly shows kindness <br>as best he can, while still beloved by faithful Beauty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eyes shining, gone aches and pains no medicine could <br>take away; love the story of the eternal Beast redeemed <br>by love and loyalty, Beauty never cheaply recompensed <br>with handsome appearance; outer hideousness keeping <br>her inner eye sharp for spiritual beauty deep within</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A grotesque animal loving her with wild devotion instead <br>of a refined, boring prince is much more enchanting to my <br>mind - phantoms are so much more interesting than the <br>foppish Ralphs with which life abound; but we must <br>not let the secret out…. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>“World of Fairytales” Michael Foreman, Random House, <br>Red Fox Edition 1994, pp.73-79</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452405" data-title="The Secret de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Rereading Beauty and the Beast recounted in World of Fairytales, struck by the sense of loss when Beast turns into just another prince – I began to dream of a Beast who remains such, only gruffly shows kindness as best he can, while still be..."></div> </div> </div>

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