To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Invisible things are the only realities.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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