Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!
Quotes to Explore
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.
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The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
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Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.
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I will never feel successful.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
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I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!
