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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul you haven't experienced poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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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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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
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Prophet! said I, thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore. Quoth the Raven, Nevermor
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!
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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of respectability in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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