Utility

“Art is a daughter of Freedom, and takes her orders from the necessity inherent in minds, not from the exigencies of matter. But at the present time material needs reign supreme and bend a degraded humanity beneath their tyrannical yoke. Utility is the great idol of our age, to which all powers are in thrall and to which all talent must pay homage.” – Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805).
 
Shun  
The noisy marketplace 
Where stalls and gallows 
Frame the mighty guillotine 
Rectitude blind. 
 
Speak 
With tongue loosed 
From the cud-chew of gossip 
A thin voice grating 
Against the boom of the world. 
 
See 
Above all 
That Beauty will 
Must 
Set you free.