False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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