Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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 dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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