The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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