Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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It 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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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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