Quote#Beauty
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it…
Quote byHenry Theodore Tuckerman · 1813–1871
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Tennyson", in Thoughts On the Poets (New York: C. S. Francis & Co., 1846), p. 275.
English (original)
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an undefinable and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. It may be that this feeling springs from a sense of unattained good, of a perfection of being quite at variance with the present, which the beautiful never fails to suggest.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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