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Writing Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- Grammar is the analysis of language.
- In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
- Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -…
- 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…
- Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
- Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
- 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…
- A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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