Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 19
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”
Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)
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