When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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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 or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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