To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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