It is too easy to forget that we live in a world where Beauty is manifest so vividly and extravagantly. I have two quotes today. One is from a 15th century Italian humanist and scholar. The other is a poem written by a then-5th grade student, which I published on this website several years ago. But reading the quote from Ficino, the scholar, reminded me of this lovely poem. I hope you enjoy.
The internal perfection produces the external. The former we can call goodness, the latter beauty. For this reason, we say that beauty is a certain blossom of goodness, by the charms of which blossom, as by a kind of bait, the hidden internal goodness attracts beholders. But since the cognition of our intellect takes its origin from the sense, we would never be aware of and never desire the goodness itself hidden in the heart of things if we were not attracted to it by the visible signs of external beauty.
Marsilio Ficino, 15th century scholar, Catholic priest, and humanist of the early Renaissance
Waves
You slowly
look up and the
Sunset sets your
eyes as
beauty, your
feet are hard
and cold, with
the rough sand and
the cold salty water.
You can see boats
slowly moving, the
clouds forming together
to hide the sun and
bring out the moon.
And still…All you
hear is waves~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Atzallana Quintana
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