Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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