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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

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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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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

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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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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

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I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

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Even in the grave, all is not lost.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

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Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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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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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.

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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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