I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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