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Call Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that…
- Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess…
- There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"…
- I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through…
- I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
- It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.
- If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
- You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through…
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