Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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