The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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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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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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.
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