Edgar Allan Poe wrote in his essay “The Poetic Principle”:
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. (Quoted from “The Poetic Principle,” by Edgar Allen Poe, published in Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, John Sartain ed., 1850. p. 234.)
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