Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEImperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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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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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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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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