That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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