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.
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 would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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