Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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