Entrepreneurs are poets
Robinson Jeffers’ poem, The Beauty of Things, dazzles me.
To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things — earth, stone and water,
Beast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars —
The blood-shot beauty of human nature, its thoughts, frenzies and passions,
And unhuman nature its towering reality —
For man’s half dream; man, you might say, is nature dreaming, but rock
And water and sky are constant — to feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry,
The rest’s diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,
The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
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The poem stands in its own right.
But because I cannot think of poetry without thinking of the Greek root poiō, I make: poets are makers.
And because entrepreneurs are the quintessential business poets: makers are poets.
I read the poem as a reminder that entrepreneurs are called to make beautiful businesses.
Robinson Jeffers’ poem, The Beauty of Things, dazzles me.
To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things — earth, stone and water,
Beast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars —
The blood-shot beauty of human nature, its thoughts, frenzies and passions,
And unhuman nature its towering reality —
For man’s half dream; man, you might say, is nature dreaming, but rock
And water and sky are constant — to feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry,
The rest’s diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,
The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
https://lnkd.in/eFBiDSS
The poem stands in its own right.
But because I cannot think of poetry without thinking of the Greek root poiō, I make: poets are makers.
And because entrepreneurs are the quintessential business poets: makers are poets.
I read the poem as a reminder that entrepreneurs are called to make beautiful businesses.