We loved with a love that was more than love.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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