A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAh, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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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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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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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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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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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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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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