Thank you Chris,
I finally received a truck full with my books from my parents' home who had
kept them until now. And I found this beautiful book bought by my mother in
Normandy years ago for me:
Les plus belles pages manuscrites de l'histoire de France by Robert Laffont
published by the Bibliotheque Nationale. It is difficult to describe the
feeling I felt, first because I had forgotten all about it, I had even
forgotten my love for France and its literature, the fact that I decided to
study French because of it, this trip of my mother who in old age and with
an extremely rusted French was able to find a bookshop and buy this very
expensive book for me,
so this morning I found beauty, in one of its most moving forms.
Anny
From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:16 PM
> Hi,
>
> in the course of heated list-related b/c exchanges the question has
> arisen as to who "says" the final lines?
>
> 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
> Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
>
> There is a footnote in the everyman edition. 'In a letter to Bailey
> dated 22nd November 1817 Keats wrote: "I am certain of nothing but the
> holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination. What
> the imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth--whether it existed
> before or not--for I have the same idea of all our passions as of Love;
> they are all, in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty.'
>
> There is some dispute as their punctuation also. The version I enter
> above is as I have found it.
>
> love and love
> cris
>
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