A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThose who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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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 eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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And I fell violently on my face.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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