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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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

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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

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Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces

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I fell in love with melancholy

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Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

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The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.

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Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

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

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[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

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All works of art should begin... at the end.

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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

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