Beauty - Einstürzende Neubauten

— You see half the moon… its crescent… and one of the planets…

maybe Saturn… maybe Jupiter… in the early night sky over Berlin…

through the windows of a taxicab, near Potsdamer Platz

You think: …Beauty

— No, this is not beauty…

— Maybe not?

— Maybe… This is the rest of it…

— Maybe not?

— Maybe… The rest of beauty…

— Maybe not…

— Maybe… What remains of beauty…

— Maybe not…

— Maybe… What is visible

— Certainly

— Uncertain

— Your arms would not be able to stretch as far as necessary to form an

adequate gesture for beauty

— You know that, don’t you?

— So… beauty remains in the impossibilities of the body