With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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