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Great post Nefir.
I especially liked the part about recognition. Sounds a lot like Plato's explaination of beauty. I liked how you even noted how things can be beautiful outside the realm of emotion connection, but how emotional connection makes the beauty (more dense?)
I have always thought that beauty is not subjective, but objective and existing independent of my thoughts. Beauty is a quality we perceive, not a label we lend to something else. A beautiful painting does not need me (or my words, thoughts, or critiques) to be beautiful.
You mentioned that there is a part of all of us that we can use to recognize beauty; that we become aware of the beauty in something. This suggests that the beauty was there even if we did not perceive it, or have not yet perceived it. I am wondering, what part of us is it that helps us to relate/recognize the beauty in the world around us.
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But I will seek the meadows by the shore: There will I wash and Purge these stains, if so I may appease Athena's wrath. Then will I find some lonely place, where I may hide this sword, beyond all others cursed, buried where none may see it, deep in earth.
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