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“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

Way Soul Eye Earth Joy Poetry Tears Evidence Witness Paradise Melancholy Nerves Excess Imperfect Disposition Delay Glimpse Exquisite Tombs Splendor Imperfect Things

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.”

Soul Taste Honorable Splendor

Book:The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two

Source: The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two

“This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.”

World Looks May Book Soul Eye Mortals Paradise Spells Splendor Steers Outer Worlds

Book:The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems

Source: The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems