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.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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 scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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