I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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