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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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