The past is a pebble in my shoe.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I 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.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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