It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POELord, help my poor soul.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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