Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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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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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 world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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