We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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 would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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