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The eternal slaves of beauty / Are the masters of the world.” ― Bliss Carman
"Art may be served by morality, it can never be its servant." Arthur Symons
"The metaphor is of no importance. Any one will do, and the more you mix them the better chance you have to catch a passing impression of that elusive brightness. …an explanation is the most depressing thing in the world." John Davys Beresford
"Words are an art form. Stop trying to use them to communicate with." Ronald Tavel
"In an age rowing rapidly toward annihilation, who is without irreverence is without honesty." -Tavel
“The man of letters is the enemy of the world.” Charles Baudelaire
"All art is anarchical; to take art seriously is to be unable to take seriously the conventions and principles by which societies exist." Clive Bell
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.” Velimir Khlebnikov
'Tis you speak, that's your error. Song's our art: Whereas you please to speak these naked thoughts Instead of draping them in sights and sound system. —True thoughts, good thoughts, thoughts fit to treasure up! - Robert Browning
"Real literature can be created only by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries." Yevgeny Zamyatin
"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass." Walter Pater
"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H.L. Mencken
"If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry..thus much curse I must send you.. when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." - Sir Philip Sidney
Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. ― Benjamin Constant, 1804
"A kangaroo walks into a bar and says to the bartender, 'Blood is the lipstick of wounds.' The bartender does not know how he said it or why." Michael O'Donoghue
"Huge shapeless rocks have a pleasing kind of horror in them, and the wide ocean awes us with it's vast contents; but when forms of beauty are presented to the eye in large quantities, the pleasure increases in the mind, and horror is soften'd into reverence." Hogarth, Analysis
"You said that the love of the beautiful disposes the empire of the gods, for that of deformed things there is no love" Plato, Symposium
"Crazy Beauty.- I am one of the Lords of Crazy Beauty. Few are anointed; many imitate. I shall make a Tenth Muse, the Goddess of Beauty, and she shall rule the other nine. Poe and Chopin, Baudelaire and Goya, Coleridge and Francis Thompson, Liszt and Blake, Robinson Jeffers and Odilon Redon, Shakespeare and Joyce, Revelation and Cervantes, De Quincy and Laforgue, Nietzsche and Wagner, Dore and Heine- they are but a few of my twins who have stolen the wild light from the eyes of the Furies and inherited the dreams of Cassandra. Prometheus stole his fire from heaven but we Lords of Crazy Beauty have filled our fennel-rods with fire from hell. Our beauty is infernal. We are the keepers of a strange and crack-brained music. We rise out of the pyres of dying suns. We are night-magic, and the light in us streams from crazy comets. We are maniacs who dance our furious bacchanals in the imagination of God! We are the black suns of Genius!" Benjamin Decasseres, Fantasia Impromptu
"...poetry has no other mission than to transmute history." Octavio Paz
"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion." Poe
"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible." Rilke
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." Poe
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." Camus
TS Eliot: The theory of “art for art’s sake” is “valid in so far as it can be taken as an exhortation to the artist to stick to his job; it never was and never can be valid for the spectator, reader or auditor.”
A poet seeing only style, I stumble over / mistake the larger picture for a method of Kant's re subjective beauty, missing the point. A better understanding here w/ books listed: https://twitter.com/KBULTRA0/status/1359635029090062336
