Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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