To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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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 rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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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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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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