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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The beauty myth moves

Post under Beauty at 10:11 PM Posted by newbee

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Naomi Wolf (b.1962)
"Sex", The Beauty Myth, 1990

I'm tired of all this nonsense

Post under Beauty at 10:11 PM Posted by newbee

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr (b.1923)
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall"
The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

For beauty is nothing

Post under Beauty at 10:09 PM Posted by newbee

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
"The First Elegy"
Duino Elegies, 2009
Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Who, if I cried out, would hear me

Post under Beauty at 10:08 PM Posted by newbee

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? And even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart; I'd be consumed
in his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure
and we stand in awe of it as it cooly disdains
to destroy us. Each angel is terrifying.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
"The First Elegy"
Duino Elegies, 1922