Tag: Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe