The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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