Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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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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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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