Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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