Fernando Pessoa: Does A Flower Really Have Beauty? Poem by Ravi Kopra

"Kya phool main
asal main khoobsoorti hoti hai?
Kya phal main hoti hai?
Nahin: un main keval rung aur roop
aur jeevan hota hai.
khoobsoorti us cheez ka naam hai
jiski majoodgi nahi hoti.
Lakin main un cheezoN ko kehta hoon
jo muje maza deti hain.
Is ka koi matlab nahin.
Fir kyon kehta hoon main un cheezon ko:
vo kitni sundar hain? "

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"Does a flower really have beauty?
Does a fruit really have beauty?
No: they have only color and form
And existence.
Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist
But that I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they
give me.
It means nothing.
So why do I say about things: they're beautiful? "

―Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems