Cyprian Kamil Norwid
— A profound understanding of beauty was one of the themes that occupied one of Poland's most important poets, Kiprian Kamil Norwid. In his 1880 work Piękno Czasu (The Beauty of Time), beauty appears as something eternal, divine, a Platonic idea not subject to the erosion of time. The poet contrasts this vision of beauty with superficial appearances, asking at the end of the poem whether this is really what one needs.