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The blue flower.
In Romanticism, the blue flower became a symbol of longing, desire, and the endless search for the unattainable.
It speaks to our yearning for the infinite-an ideal we chase but can never fully reach.
This mysterious blossom reflects the boundless potential of human emotion and creativity, and the pull of the unknown:the dreams, memories, and desires hidden in the depths of our own minds.
We all have a blue flower: an unreachable horizon that still inspires our journey. What’s yours?
Nostalgia of the lost past...
...even if you have never experienced it. Or maybe exactly for this reason.
Ruins, legends, and medieval castles... what I love about the romantics is that they felt a deep longing for what was lost. So do I... including for the romantics.
Lord Byron, the "Byronic Hero".
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." No, that's not about me (and if it is, then behind my back). That’s how Lady Caroline Lamb described Lord Byron: poet, celebrity, and scandal-maker.
Byron’s heroes were brooding outsiders, rebels haunted by their own passions-a new literary archetype that still influences modern fiction. Often under different circumstances, including here on Storyexpe, we have wondered what Lord Byron would write about today. My conclusion: about the same things as then, but with people using smartphones. ...Go ahead and prove me wrong.
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The Blue Flower
The blue flower is a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism. It symbolizes nostalgia, desire, and the (metaphysical) search for infinite.
The blue flower represents an unattainable longing or an ideal that is yearned for, but can never be fully achieved.
It symbolizes the infinite nature of human striving and the pursuit of the ideal, reflecting the romantic emphasis on the boundless potential of human emotion and creativity. It also represents mystery and the unconscious mind, delving into the depths of human emotion and the unknown aspects of existence.
"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."
John Keats
...About the Romanticism
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
"Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. "
"To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite."
"In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order."
"We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming."
"One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
(Pride and Prejudice)
"In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears"
"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."
"The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain."
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think."
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
"Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love on.
I feel the flow of
Death's youth-giving flood
To balsam and ether
Transform my blood --
I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy fire
I die every night."