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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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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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