Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFalse hope is nicer than no hope at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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 have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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