As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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 death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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 am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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