Ever reflective and tender, Keats, in a letter to his love Fanny Brawne,
“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.” (Feb. 1820)
Love the principle of beauty in all things, writer.
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Just lovely. A great reminder.
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Thank you for reading.
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It’s hard to believe he died so young.
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Man, this is too good. You have GOT to make these longer.
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I’ve been thinking that too Varjak. Thank you for your thoughts.
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It is something to remember. Not always easy though, but definitely something to strive for.
It makes me think of the odd bit of backwards magic that happens whenever you try to write something “memorable”. It usually never is.
However, write something just to write, and immediately it becomes part of “the principle of beauty”…it just is, without expectations.
As always, thank you for sharing!
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Sometimes I think things up close just are NOT beautiful (like the deer on the side of the road that got hit, and now the vultures are pecking at it). And yet, when I step back, I see the vultures gracefully flying overhead, the circle of life, nature . . . .
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I’ve tried, this past fortnight, to imagine vultures eating roadkill and I think (in imagination) it can be beautiful. Although, seeing animal bodies killed by cars seems only to contain violence and I’m not sure how violence relates to beauty.
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It’s so simple, yet so deep. Thank you for sharing this. I think I’ll meditate on this today.
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Oh, this is giving me the urge to watch Bright Star for the – what – third time?
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I’d like to lay on a tree like Keats in that film.
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I don’t remember that scene. Have SUCH a bad memory. There you go, another reason to watch it again
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Do you remember the butterflies?
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No! Waaaah! It’s so disturbing, my MECFS brain. I loved this movie, have seen it at least twice, and it’s almost as if I’ve never seen it at all.
That’s it. I’m going to watch it again
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Let me know if you still like it.
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Hey Sue, I love it that you mentioned your MECFS brain. I’ve got a brain like that. Makes me have to edit four paragraphs numerous times, and still have to replace three-dot placeholders with weird words
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I started my blog because I am dying. As I’m still here, I’ve broadened it.
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