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.
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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And I fell violently on my face.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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