That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. 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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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