Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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 – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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