If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWe had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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 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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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 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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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 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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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