The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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