Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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