Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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