a lonely impulse of delight

ian lennart surraville

poet & essayist.
editor @ peripheral surveys (ps +)
peripheralsurveys.com

vulgivagus asked: We see want we want to see in reflections with no colors but fair shapes and shades of gray. They are what we want them to be if we want them hard enough when we see them.

Relativity, yes. Be it an aesthetic perception or philosophical criticism, it is a pitfall we all fall into without an exception. Yet that tangible beauty is something I crave when that which I perceive as beautiful is far and away  … as an ideal aspiration.  

  • 26 April 2011
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