In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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 man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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