The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POEScience has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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