Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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