Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFalse hope is nicer than no hope at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBlood was its Avatar and its seal.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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