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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational, Life, Writing

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Fall, Carpe Diem
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

Leave my loneliness unbroken

Edgar Allan Poe
Loneliness, Unbroken
Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.18, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe
Stupid, Silly, Ignorance

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe
Funny Life, Wish, Forget
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1201, Ageless Reads

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Hereafter, Knows

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

Edgar Allan Poe
Dog, Government, Democracy
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”, p.379, Doubleday

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Poetry Is

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

Edgar Allan Poe
Strong, Taken, Giving

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Edgar Allan Poe
Perfect, Plot, Universe
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.3066, ShandonPress

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Edgar Allan Poe
Fall, Effort, Soar
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.525

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dream, Wonder
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3755, Delphi Classics

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thinking, Example, Fool
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.758, ShandonPress

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Edgar Allan Poe
Book, Thoughtful, Suffering
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1322, Library of America

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sad, Eye, Humanity
Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe
Writing, Insightful, Story Writers

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

Edgar Allan Poe
Ravens, Sitting Still, Nevermore
"The Raven" l. 103 (1845)

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Thoughtful, Poetry
"The Poetic Principle". Essay by Edgar Allan Poe, 1850.

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

Edgar Allan Poe
Self, Torture, Thirst

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Edgar Allan Poe
I Can
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2806, Delphi Classics

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 Allan Poe
Wise, Wisdom, Men
Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.4, City Lights Books

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 very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Ideas, Music Is
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.17, Library of America

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful, Men, Noble
Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.516, Penguin

Once upon a midnight dreary

Edgar Allan Poe
Midnight, Dreary
"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Edgar Allan Poe
Art, Ends, Should
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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