" Beauty is the supreme mystery in this world.
It is a brilliance that attracts attention but gives
it no motive to stay. Beauty is always promising
and never gives anything; it creates a hunger but
has in it no food for the part of the soul that tries
here below to be satisfied; it has food only for the
part of the soul that contemplates. It creates
desire, and it makes it clearly felt that there is nothing in it to be desired, because one insists
above all that nothing about it change. If one does
not seek measures by which to escape from the
delicious torment inflicted by it, desire is little by
little transformed into love, and a seed of the faculty of disinterested and pure attention is
created".
From Simone Weil : 'Thinking Poetically'.
Joan dargan. 1999. State University of New York
Press.