Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFrom 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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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