Every Poem Should Remind The Reader That

Reality Is The #1 Cause Of Insanity Among Those Who Are In Contact With It

I Might Refer At Once, If Necessary, To A Hundred Well Authenticated Instances. One Of Very Remarkable Character, And Of Which The Circumstances May Be Fresh In The Memory Of Some Of My Readers, Occurred, Not Very Long Ago, In The Neighboring City Of Baltimore, Where It Occasioned A Painful, Intense, And Widely Extended Excitement.

To Elevate The Soul, Poetry Is Necessary.

And Now Have I Not Told You That What You Mistake For Madness Is But Overacuteness Of The Senses?

In Our Endeavors To Recall To Memory Something Long Forgotten, We Often Find Ourselves Upon The Very Verge Of Remembrance, Without Being Able, In The End, To Remember.