A wise man hears one word and understands two.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBooks, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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