A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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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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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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