Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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And I fell violently on my face.
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