I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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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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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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