And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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 was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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