I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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