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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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