100+ Edgar Allan Poe Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beauty Exquisite Imperfection Proportion Stranger
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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One Liner Past Shoes
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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Break Up Deep Forget Hatred Love
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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Madness Mistake Sense
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Door Heart
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Hear Man Understand Wise
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Attachment Crave Desire Suffering
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Experience Poem Poetry Soul
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Experience Poem Poetry Soul
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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Deep False Hope One Liner
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Beauty Creation Poetry Rhythm Words
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Dreams Inspirational Perception
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Cognizant Dreams Escape Night
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positve
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Genius Imperfection Incomplete Silence True
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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General Nature Particular Rich Truth
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Boot Deep Lie Travel Truth World
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Envolve Fear Fraud Friendship Greed Imagination Poetry Religion
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Beautiful Death Poet Woman World
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Passion Poetry Purpose
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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Color Dwell Grass Love Sun Togetherness Valley
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Mathematics Poet Reason
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Broken Heart Depression Head Lose Mind Sad
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Force Heath Humor Injure Man Mystery Thinking
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Advice Believe Hear See Truth
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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Poetry Writing
Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Dreams Mad Sure

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