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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

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And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

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Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

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But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

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You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

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Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado!

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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

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It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

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In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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