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.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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