All Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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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.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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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.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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