Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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