<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beauty: [Notes for an unfinished poem]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beautiful, the fair, the elegant,<br>Is that which pleases us, says Kant,<br>Without a thought of interest or advantage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I used to watch men when they spoke of beauty<br>And measure their enthusiasm. One<br>An old man, seeing a ( ) setting sun,<br>Praised it ( ) a certain sense of duty<br>To the calm evening and his time of life.<br>I know another man that never says a Beauty<br>But of a horse; ( )</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men seldom speak of beauty, beauty as such,<br>Not even lovers think about it much.<br>Women of course consider it for hours<br>In mirrors; ( )</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shrapnel ball -<br>Just where the wet skin glistened when he swam -<br>Like a fully-opened sea-anemone.<br>We both said 'What a beauty! What a beauty, lad'<br>I knew that in that flower he saw a hope<br>Of living on, and seeing again the roses of his home.<br>Beauty is that which pleases and delights,<br>Not bringing personal advantage - Kant.<br>But later on I heard<br>A canker worked into that crimson flower<br>And that he sank with it<br>And laid it with the anemones off Dover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfred+Owen">Wilfred Owen</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=536223" data-title="Beauty: [Notes for an unfinished poem] de Wilfred Owen" data-description="The beautiful, the fair, the elegant, Is that which pleases us, says Kant, Without a thought of interest or advantage. I used to watch men when they spoke of beauty And measure their enthusiasm. One An old man, seeing a ( ) setting sun, Praised i..."></div> </div> </div>

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