That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.


The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales. Eureka, an essay on the material and spiritual universe (ed. 1857)

Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the...