There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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 intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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