Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Book Quotes, Agreement Quotes

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

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[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.

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

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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

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I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

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There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

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The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

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Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

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Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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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.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

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