The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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