Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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