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.
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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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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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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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