Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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And I fell violently on my face.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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