Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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