From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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