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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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