On Beauty as a Symbol of Morality

“Taste as it were makes possible the transition from sensible charm to the habitual moral interest without too violent a leap by representing the imagination even in its freedom as purposively determinable for the understanding and teaching us to find a free satisfaction in the objects of the senses even without any sensible charm.” – Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
 
If common sense is vulgur
I seek communion with genius
Whose wings have been clipped by taste
That it may lay its golden eggs forever
According to quota and recipe
Imaginiation, beaten with understanding,
Sautéd in spirit
Seasoned to desire and served as beauty.
Buildings majestic ringed
By magnificent trees and smiling fields
Sunkissed in tender colour
Thus we are painted and morally stained.