• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic 1809-1845
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. contemplation
2. beautiful
3. derived

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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. by : Edgar Allan Poe

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