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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFalse hope is nicer than no hope at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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