Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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