With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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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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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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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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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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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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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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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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