If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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