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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEConvinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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 rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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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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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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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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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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