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The generous Critic fann'd th...

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

I have no faith in human perf...

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

It is by no means an irration...

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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The death of a beautiful woma...

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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I have great faith in fools; ...

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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The boundaries which divide L...

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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To vilify a great man is the ...

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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It will be found, in fact, th...

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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I would define, in brief, the...

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

The ninety and nine are with ...

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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That pleasure which is at onc...

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

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The true genius shudders at i...

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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Were I called on to define, v...

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 the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Edgar Poe 448 quotes

Experience has shown, and a t...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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In criticism I will be bold, ...

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in i...

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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I need scarcely observe that ...

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

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In one case out of a hundred ...

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

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That man is not truly brave w...

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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Deep into that darkness peeri...

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....