And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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 a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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