Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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