Lord, help my poor soul.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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