If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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