If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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