The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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