A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAnd I fell violently on my face.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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 rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
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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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