I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
EDGAR ALLAN POEStupidity is a talent for misconception.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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