To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of thingsearth, stone and water,
Beast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars
The blood-shot beauty of human nature, its thoughts, frenzies and passions,
And unhuman nature its towering reality
For mans half dream; man, you might say, is nature dreaming, but rock
And water and sky are constantto feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry.
The rests diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,
The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
The Beauty of Things
written byRobinson Jeffers
© Robinson Jeffers