„A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.“

— Edgar Allan Poe

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„I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley