A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who gossip with you will gossip about you.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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