A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Lord, help my poor soul.
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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.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
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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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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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False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
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A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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