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Edgar Allan Poe Quote - Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Appearance High Indeed Jacket Madness Straight Time
Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Art Criticism Look One Liner
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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Active Appreciation Effect Faith Happiness Human Hurt Man Perfection Wise
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Finding Possiblity Verse
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Madness Mistake Sense
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Beginning Boundary Death Division Ending Life Shadow Vague
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Afraid Brave Coward Man True
From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Alone Awake Childhood Heart Joy Love
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Permit Personal Private Secret
Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Growth Imperfection Love Music Stronger
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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Bad Eternal Gone Goodness Rest Worst
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Force Heath Humor Injure Man Mystery Thinking
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Book Indeed Luxury One Liner
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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Content Dreams Hope Man World
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Demon Fight Frame Insane Instant Myself Original Posses Soul Violence
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Boot Deep Lie Travel Truth World
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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General Nature Particular Rich Truth
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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Darkness Dreams Existence Fancy Future Irritation Present Thinking
Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Dreams Mad Sure
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Absolute Dangerous Exception Horror Indeed
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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Beautiful Contemplation Division Elevate Intense Pleasure
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Cat Imagination Mystery One Liner
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Advice Believe Hear See Truth
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Calm Encounter Ocean Storm World
Now 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.
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Fancy Insane Mad Wise
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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One Liner Past Shoes
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beauty Exquisite Imperfection Proportion Stranger

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