Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
Quotes to Explore
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
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Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.
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Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
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I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
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I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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Being a happy warrior, you also have a lot of fun in what you do because you believe in what you're doing.
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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.
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If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.
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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
