A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEither 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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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