I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe past is a pebble in my shoe.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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