I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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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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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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