Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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 wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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