The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I 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.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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