The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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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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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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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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