Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Convince Quotes

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

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For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

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There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

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A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

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Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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Once upon a midnight dreary

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Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.

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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee

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Art is to look at not to criticize.

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

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

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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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

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

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

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