The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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