That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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