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Edgar Allan Poe has 333 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
— Howard Cosell
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Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
— Edouard Manet
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Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
— Edouard Manet
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
— Constance Hale
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
— Josh Gad
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A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need…
— David Cross
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Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
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Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She…
— Haruki Murakami
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Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
— Haruki Murakami
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