Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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