I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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