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Very Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs
- If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity…
- A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the…
- 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…
- Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
- True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,…
- He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
- THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
- As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an…
- In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the…
- [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly…
- True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
- Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the…
- Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its…
- I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the…
- The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not…
- 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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