Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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