It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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