“For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.”
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
“I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.”
“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia”
“It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.”
“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”