Impulso

 

"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is the desire to hold on to it: to possess it and give it weight in our lives. There is an urge to say: 'I was there, I saw this and it mattered to me.'.

But beauty is fugitive, it is frequently found in places to which we may never return or else it results from a rare conjunction of season, light and weather. How then to possess it, how to hold on (...)?"

Alain du Botton, in The  Art  of Travel

Imagem: MB, Kylemore Abbey, Irlanda, 03.08.2022