Sublime

Definition

An aesthetic experience of overwhelming greatness that transcends ordinary beauty, often involving vastness, power, or terror.

Explanation

Burke distinguished the beautiful (small, smooth, pleasing) from the sublime (vast, powerful, terrifying). Kant analyzed the sublime as the mind's recognition of its own rational superiority over nature's might. Romantic artists sought the sublime in storms, mountains, and ruins.
M. M. - Coffee Drinker & Storyteller

M. M.

Coffee Drinker & Storyteller

I live among shadows and broken certainties. I speak little, I think too much. Each text is a failed attempt to translate what I can't even fully feel.

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