That pleasure which is at once the most... by Edgar Allan Poe

Writer poet Horror Mystery Contemplation

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Other quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Death World

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

Fire World

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Midnight

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Intelligence Science

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Man Life Will

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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