Motif
divine madness through beauty
divine_madness_through_beauty
A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2323-2387 confidence: high
The fourth kind of madness occurs when someone sees earthly beauty, recollects true beauty, wishes to fly away, and is compared to a bird fluttering and looking upward.
Seeing earthly beauty causes recollection of true beauty; the person is transported, desires flight, and is thought mad though described as inspired.
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