The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEImperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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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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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 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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Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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