A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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