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

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Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.

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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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Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...more

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

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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not ...more

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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fa...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.