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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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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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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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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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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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