The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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