Beauty That Makes One Weep

Subject: RE: Beauty That Makes One Weep
From: kendall
Date: 20 Aug 13 - 01:25 PM

One of my favorite quotes, one that I may have posted too often:

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. (Keats)

The painting by Botticelli, The birth of Venus.

Subject: RE: Beauty That Makes One Weep
From: kendall
Date: 20 Aug 13 - 01:22 PM

The wild beauty of the highlands of Scotland.

Subject: RE: Beauty That Makes One Weep
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 20 Aug 13 - 12:10 PM

Anything painted by Vermeer, anything played by Jacqeline Du Pre and anything sung by Maria Callas.

Subject: Beauty That Makes One Weep
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Aug 13 - 11:55 AM

The other night at music, the dobro player began an instrumental, 'The End of the World' (Oswald Kirby, Fred Rose). His wife played her guitar behind him, then a mandolin joined in and then the fiddle. I sat there with my eyes closed and just listened. It became a thing of beauty, dense, lonesome, visceral.

I'm posting this above the line but it is not only music that occasions such response. I used to hike in wild country a great deal and sometimes I could only weep at the vista before me.

Or sometimes it is a scene between a parent and child or one between two lovers...

The strange thing is that I have never cried easily. To me there is no such thing as "Having a good cry" - it has always given me a headache and a hollow heart.