1- “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
2- “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
3- “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
4- “Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
5- “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
6- “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
7- “Years of love have been forgotten, in the hatred of a minute.”
8- “Decorum — that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.”
9- “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
10- “We loved with a love that was more than love…With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/Coveted her and me.”
11- “The best things in life make you sweaty.”
12- “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.”
13- I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
14- “The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”
15- “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
16- “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
17- “I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.”
18- “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?”
19- “From childhood’s hour I have not been / As others were—I have not seen / As others saw—I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.”
20- “It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.”
21- “The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.”
22- “Deep in earth my love is lying/And I must weep alone.”
23- “Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”
24- “A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”
25- “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
26- “I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”
27- “I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.”
28- “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.”
29- “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
30- “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
31- “That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness of the senses”
32- “If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there”
33- “A wise man hears one word and understands two.”
34- “We loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.”
35- “If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.”
36- “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”
37- “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence— whether much that is glorious— whether all that is profound— does not spring from disease of thought— from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
38- “…the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.”
39- “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
40- “There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.”
41- “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
42- “You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself … of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.”
43- “By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm-eaten, wooden tenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious, that scarce the semblance of a p*ssage was discernible between them.”
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