Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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