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Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,-
"If you seek for Eldorado.


Edgar Allan Poe

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forever
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By caves where never sun has shone,
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And shelter for animals,
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And if sun comes
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On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
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ANON. If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises fr...
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i tasted
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in the coldest winds
SANOBER KHAN XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
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__________________

If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?

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So cruelly you kissed me.
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Of something be...
SYLVIA PLATH The sea loved the moon
When she was supposed to love the shore.

The moon knew
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If you associate yourself with a change maker,
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The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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Into the mouth of hell.
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Between the potency
And the existence
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And the reality
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And the act
Falls the Shadow
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EDGAR ALLAN POE Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!
EDGAR ALLAN POE There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
EDGAR ALLAN POE As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles i...
EDGAR ALLAN POE In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
EDGAR ALLAN POE All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence
EDGAR ALLAN POE There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
EDGAR ALLAN POE All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry
EDGAR ALLAN POE But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
EDGAR ALLAN POE تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
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