And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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 felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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