AESTHETIC GODS POOL POSTING

We want something else which can hardly be put in to words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass in to it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it and become a part of it.”— C.S. Lewis. (2)

“Ah, but we want so much more—something the books on aesthetics take little notice of, but the poets and mythologies know all about. We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. (1)