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There is no exquisite beauty-¦ without some strangeness in the proportion.

There is no exquisite beauty-¦ without some strangeness in the proportion.
– Edgar Allan Poe

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  2. Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow. – Nicholas Trandahl
  3. I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. – Edgar Allan Poe
  4. I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane. – Edgar Allan Poe
  5. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
  6. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe
  7. Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream. – Edgar Allan Poe
  8. A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul. – Edgar Allan Poe
  9. I intend to put up with nothing that I can put – Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. – Edgar Allan Poe
  11. In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind. – Edgar Allan Poe
  12. And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? – Edgar Allan Poe
  13. I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery. – Edgar Allan Poe
  14. You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. – Edgar Allan Poe
  15. So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity. – Edgar Allan Poe
  16. The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. – Edgar Allan Poe
  17. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. – Edgar Allan Poe
  18. From childhood’s hour I have not beenAs others were – I have not seenAs others saw – I could not bringMy passions from a common spring – – Edgar Allan Poe
  19. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls… – Edgar Allan Poe
  20. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. – Edgar Allan Poe
  21. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. – Edgar Allan Poe
  22. To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair – Edgar Allan Poe
  23. I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity. – Edgar Allan Poe
  24. I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock. – Edgar Allan Poe
  25. Be nothing which thou art not – Edgar Allan Poe
  26. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love-” I and my Annabel Lee-” – Edgar Allan Poe
  27. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. – Edgar Allan Poe
  28. For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. – Edgar Allan Poe
  29. Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. – Edgar Allan Poe
  30. Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces – Edgar Allan Poe
  31. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was.  – Edgar Allan Poe
  32. It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge-”some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. – Edgar Allan Poe
  33. I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. – Oscar Wilde
  34. Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. – Charles Baudelaire
  35. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. – Harold Bloom
  36. My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. – David D Allee
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  38. You are never a failure when you learn from a mistake and try again ~ Levon Poe – Levon Poe
  39. Don’t believe in coincidence. There is nothing unplanned in this universe ~ Levon Peter Poe – Levon Poe
  40. There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love. – Jay Woodman

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