The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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