That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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 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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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