All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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