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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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