I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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