That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMen have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to 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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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