There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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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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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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