That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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