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.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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