Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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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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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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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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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