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 POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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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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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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