All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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