Fine Arts

O people with observing eyes, A taste for observation is a good things, but What good is observation if it does not see The inwardness of things?

The aim of art should be to generate A vital flame that never dies. What use is a mere momentary spark?

What good, O rain-drop, if you do not agitate The bosom of the sea, And are content to be A pearl lodged in a mother-of-pearl’s womb?

What good a breath of morning breeze, Whether as poet’s verse or singer’s air, If it can only make the garden wilt?

O never without miracles do people rise; What good is art that does not have The impact of the rod of Moses?