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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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