If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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