Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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