Tag: Edgar Allan Poe
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe