9.27.2009

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"

Art, above all, makes me want to cry.


Bright Star was good, but I'll get it out of the way and say that it was not amazing. Cry-worthy, yes. However due to my lack of understanding English expression and poetry in general, I could not follow the dialogue completely. Which is the main source of why I don't appreciate this film as much as I could. However, I have grown more fond of the actor, Ben Whishaw. And an additional fondness for the actress Abbie Cornish, whom is unmistakeably beautiful, and Australian. My only complaint [or usual, I should say] was the lack of intimacy. Or even more specifically so, Abbie's lack of passionate kissing. I feel like this paragraph is killing the film. I don't mean it to be so. I must say I'm in a different place right now and this film has undoubtedly affected me, like other good films. I'm feeling rather poetic because of it. And that is all I feel like saying for now. I'll let John Keats say the rest.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all"
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

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