If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat 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.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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