There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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