There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMan’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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