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Words Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well
- 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…
- Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For…
- In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth…
- For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with…
- I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila