Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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