With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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.
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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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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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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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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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