To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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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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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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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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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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