The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWe had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
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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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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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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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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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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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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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