Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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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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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 ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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