False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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