I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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