I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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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 depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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