I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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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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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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