Quotation taken from Edgar Allan Poe's essay "Th Poetic Principle", written toward the end of his life and published posthumously in 1850.
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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