The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven in the grave, all is not lost.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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