I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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