Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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