I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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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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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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 lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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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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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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