Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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