Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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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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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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