Beauty

 

Wikimedia Commons : Birth of Venus : Boticelli

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank

Emily Dickinson says, “Beauty is not caused. It is.”

 

Ruskin Bond in his story Most Beautiful writes, “Ugly is just a word”, I said, “Like Beauty. They mean different things to different people….” The narrator assumes that ‘Beauty’ is a relative term.

 

In the poem Beauty XXV Khalil Gibran says: The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. 
Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us." 

 

I came across a beautiful quote by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss American psychiatrist and a pioneer in near-death studies: People are stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed, only, if there is a light from within.

 

Beauty is hidden everywhere and in everything, methinks. Only the eye of the beholder finds it or let me put it in H.G. Wells’ way : Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

 

This week you are to Walk in Beauty. What’s beautiful to you; what’s not; where it’s still found; where it’s missing and anything and everything related to Beauty.

 

A couple of Poems :

 Beautiful by Carol Ann Duffy

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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