Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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