A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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