The Inner Beauty  Published: 1911 Language: English Wordcount:
9,372 / 32 pg Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 59.9 LoC Category: PQ
Downloads: 603 Added to site: 2011.06.15 30161  A short and
poetic essay on some of life's mysteries from 1911 Nobel Prize
winner Maurice Maeterlinck.  Show Excerpt  gates of the Atrides.
It is ever giving utterance to words of shadowy truth, but there
are none to listen. When we raise our eyes it yearns for a ray
of sun or star, that it may weave into a thought, or, haply, an
impulse, which shall be unconscious and very pure. And if our
eyes bring it nothing, still will it know how to turn its
pitiful disillusion into something ineffable, that it will
conceal even till its death.  When we love, how eagerly does it
drink in the light from behind the closed door--keen with
expectation, it yet wastes not a minute, and the light that
steals through the apertures becomes beauty and truth to the
soul. But if the door open not (and how many lives are there
wherein it does open?) it will go