The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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