The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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 was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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