There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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