If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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