Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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