I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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