Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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