A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as 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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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