The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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