With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POETake thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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