Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Passion Quotes, Impatient Quotes

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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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

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Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

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

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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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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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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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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

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Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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