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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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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