With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POEArt is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POETake thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhen a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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