Beauty Is A Liability Poem by Ravi Kopra
Beauty Is A Liability
What will you do with your beauty
if you become a liability
and have no brains
to be self dependent?
A flower that withers the next day
A painting that soon shades
A candle that burns in an hour
A storm that passes in seconds
The lightening that dazzles
For an instant and then, gone, gone, gone...
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: beauty
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
You do not seem to realise that beauty is a liability rather than
an asset—that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are
justified in supposing
that you must have brains. For you, a symbol of the unit, stiff and
sharp,
conscious of surpassing by dint of native superiority and liking for
everything
self-dependent,
-Marianne Moore
an asset—that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are
justified in supposing
that you must have brains. For you, a symbol of the unit, stiff and
sharp,
conscious of surpassing by dint of native superiority and liking for
everything
self-dependent,
-Marianne Moore
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