Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Interpretation
The profound beauty can deeply affect sensitive individuals, often moving them emotionally.
Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes that true beauty, when fully realized, has the power to evoke strong emotions, particularly tears of appreciation or overwhelming feelings in those who are attuned to its essence. This quote highlights the unique connection between beauty and emotional response, especially in those who are more sensitive or perceptive.
In practice
This quote could be shared at an art gallery opening to emphasize the emotional impact of art.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act.
I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
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