Edgar Allan Poe on poetry
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe 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.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The best things in life make you sweaty.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
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