If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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