I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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