Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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