A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEI wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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Leave my loneliness unbroken.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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