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There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and...more

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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a conseque...more

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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...more

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.