The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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 have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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