NPPF - Canto Four

[Mary Krimmel]

Keats's Grecian urn is - silently, pictorially and centuries earlier - more 
succinct.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty".

Mary Krimmel

At 09:22 AM 8/15/03 -0700, Glenn Scheper wrote:

>Emily Dickinson associates Beauty (AC I say) with Truth (AF):
>
>http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson/i-died-f
>or-beauty
>Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
> > I died for beauty but was scarce
> > Adjusted in the tomb,
> > When one who died for truth was lain
> > In an adjoining room.
> > He questioned softly why I failed?
> > "For beauty," I replied.
> > "And I for truth,--the two are one;
> > We brethren are," he said.
> > And so, as kinsmen met a night,
> > We talked between the rooms,
> > Until the moss had reached our lips,
> > And covered up our names.