And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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