The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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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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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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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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