Edgar Allan Poe on death
“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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe 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?
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe The past is a pebble in my shoe.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
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