All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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