With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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