File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 1020


Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:57:50 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Art and truth


>> Truth is beauty, beauty truth. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye
>>  need to know,
>>
>>  g
>>
>GEORGE !!!!  I come to bring you sad tidings, and to welcome you  to what is
>left of the 20th century.
>
>1) What is true is not necessarily beautiful.
>
>2) What is beautiful is not necessarily true.
>
>pat
>
>
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Don't tell me, tell Keats, and the foster child of silence and slow time.
But I might as well quote it accurately,

	Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
	When old age shall this generation waste,
		Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou saay'st,
	'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
		Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'

And the century has nothing to do with it.  Indeed, one never knows how to
set ones calendar.  What century is it on a Jewish calendar?

Cheers,
g

Or, from another perspective, how about,

We can forgive a man for making a  useful thing as long as he does not
admire it.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless. (1891)

Or; The perfect meeting of art and nature is the well-made buttonhole.

g





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