To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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