Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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