It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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