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" In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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" Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. "

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" The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. "

" Stupidity is a talent for misconception. "

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" Lord, help my poor soul. "

" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "

" If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. "

" I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. "

" Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. "

" The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. "

" In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. "

" The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. "

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

" Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. "

" Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' "

" Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. "

" Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. "

" Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. "

" We loved with a love that was more than love. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Loved

Than

" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Passion

Been

" To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. "

" There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. "

" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. "

" Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. "

" 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. "

" 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. "