If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEYet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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