Experience 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 POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Now 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.
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