Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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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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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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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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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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