Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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If 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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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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.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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