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127. “There are surely other worlds than this – other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude – other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as a wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies?”
Edgar Allan Poe
Existence, Individuality, Philosophy, Social Commentary, Imaginative Insight, Emotional Critique
128. “Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart—one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.” Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Morality, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Psychological Reflection
130. “There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type of twin entity which springs from matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.” Edgar Allan Poe Duality, Existence, Qualities, Philosophical Insight, Metaphysical Observation, Artistic Interpretation
131. “No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.” Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Thought, Understanding, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Journey, Human Nature
136. “A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility – alive, with the qualifications of the dead – dead, with the propensities of the living – an anomaly on the face of the earth – being very calm, yet breathless.” Edgar Allan Poe Irrascibility, Existence, Contradiction, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Human Nature
138. “I heed not that my earthly lot Hath – little of Earth in it – That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: – I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.” Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Love, Loss, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Poetic Lament
148. “Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.” William Blake Existence, Death, Cosmic Struggle, Poetic Imagery, Philosophical Vision, Spiritual Symbolism
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127. “There are surely other worlds than this – other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude – other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as a wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies?”
Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Individuality, Philosophy, Social Commentary, Imaginative Insight, Emotional Critique
128. “Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart—one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”
Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Morality, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Psychological Reflection
130. “There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type of twin entity which springs from matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.”
Edgar Allan Poe Duality, Existence, Qualities, Philosophical Insight, Metaphysical Observation, Artistic Interpretation
131. “No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.”
Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Thought, Understanding, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Journey, Human Nature
136. “A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility – alive, with the qualifications of the dead – dead, with the propensities of the living – an anomaly on the face of the earth – being very calm, yet breathless.”
Edgar Allan Poe Irrascibility, Existence, Contradiction, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Human Nature
138. “I heed not that my earthly lot Hath – little of Earth in it – That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: – I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.”
Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Love, Loss, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Poetic Lament
148. “Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.”
William Blake Existence, Death, Cosmic Struggle, Poetic Imagery, Philosophical Vision, Spiritual Symbolism
