“All is beautiful and unceasing,
all is music and reason,
and all, like diamond,
is carbon first, then light.”
I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 275
Simple Verses (1891)
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Diamonds, Unapologetic (2012). Cowritten with Benjamin Levin, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen.
Songs
Source: Stamping Butterflies (2004), Chapter 25 (p. 157)
“For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty,
And all my ways are dewy wet
With pleasant duty.”
Service.
The Barrel Organ
Poems (1906)
Context: Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;
Dissects the common carnival
Of passions and regrets,
And gives the world a glimpse of all
The colours it forgets.
“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
Variant: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Source: Anna Karenina
“The core reason for it all was beauty.”
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Let the Great World Spin Forever Down
Context: The core reason for it all was beauty. Walking was a divine delight. Everything was rewritten when he was up in the air. New things were possible with the human form. It went beyond equilibrium.
He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
“Music first of all and after you.”
Original: (it) La musica prima di tutto e dopo di te.
Source: prevale.net