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.
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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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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