To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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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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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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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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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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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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