To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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