Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIt 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 would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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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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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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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 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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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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