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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEFrom 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POETo die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEI intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POETake thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POEAh, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POE