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Exhausting Beauty - by Anna - Philosophical Crumbs

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Beauty struggles with privacy.

Beauty struggles with privacy. It urges us to multiply it—by means of ode, imitation, replica or fraud. If I find something beautiful and refuse to tell anyone about it, I feel that I have left some itch in me unscratched, or that something has been lost on me: Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published some marvelous experience Frank O’Hara said, Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it. Like pain, then, the feeling of beauty begs for expression,…

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