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 POEAll that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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