THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY
Beauty no other thing is, than a beam Flash'd out between the middle and extreme.
Robert Herrick
Beauty no other thing is, than a beam Flash'd out between the middle and extreme.
Herrick offers a single, striking image for beauty: a beam of light suddenly blazing out between two opposite points. He calls those points “the middle and extreme,” so he’s suggesting beauty lives in a tense, perfect spot — not too plain, not too wild, but exactly where a sudden brightness can…
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