Taste of Pleasure

“The pleasure in the judgement of taste is therefore certainly dependent on an empirical representation, and cannot be associated a priori with any concept (one cannot determine a priori which object will or will not suit taste, one must try it out); but it is nevertheless the determining ground of this judgement only in virtue of the fact that one is aware that it rests merely on reflection and on the general although only subjective conditions of its correspondence for the cognition of objects in general, for which the form of the object is purposive.” – Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).

Formed by a purposive hand, 

I cognize nothing 

I perceive nothing 

I derive 

With apprehension 

in play, in play… 

We judge with pleasure 

And taste a rose 

Within a mobile water drop 

Inside the crystal stalactite.