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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

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.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature,...

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