Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Mind Quotes, Enthusiasm Quotes

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

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A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

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Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

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There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel

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

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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

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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, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

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I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

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