Art for art's sake

You know how you say, "i wish i could have said that-wrote that-...post a blog about that"? in my last Dr. Sexson class we discussed touchstone moments, moments that inspire or moments of literary significance that you have come across. In class we were all asked to post several of our touchstone moments and i had few good ones, but there was one that a fellow student wrote, and the blog itself was a moment for me. And within that blog a frame of even more beauty: Ezra Pounds, In the Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

i can't remember who in my previous class wrote about this calling it real art for art's sake. but i'm jealous.