Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Interpretation
True enthusiasm carries a powerful and undeniable expressiveness.
This quote by Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes the strength and clarity of emotions when they are genuinely felt. It suggests that when someone is truly passionate about something, their enthusiasm can convey messages more effectively than words alone, making the expression of sentiment resonate deeply with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students at graduation.
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.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and youβll find your way home.
Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
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