Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEven for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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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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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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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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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
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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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