The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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