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Philip José Farmer on Beauty

1918–2009 United States

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Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!

The Dark Design (1977)

Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine.
Look, Job! Caught Beauty, held to light, now apes
A good, now evil, thing — the shifting sign
And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

We too. No wisdom to utter.
You've beauty, flux, and terror
To tell. So've I. And they're
Very hard to mutter
Through so much chatter and stutter.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip José Farmer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.