"Every poem should remind the reader that they……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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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,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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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…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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