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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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'Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
Edgar Allan Poe -
Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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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But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven aboveNor the demons down under the seaCan ever dissever my soul from the soulOf the beautiful Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
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It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night - and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!
Edgar Allan Poe -
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe -
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe