The past is a pebble in my shoe.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I 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.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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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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