I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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