I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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