Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Madmen Quotes, Jackets Quotes

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

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And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

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

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Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)

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There is no beauty without some strangeness

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...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.

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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

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And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

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To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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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.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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