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" A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Religion

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" The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Lord, help my poor soul. "

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

" 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. "

" I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. "

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

" Stupidity is a talent for misconception. "

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

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

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

" I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. "

" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. "

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

" We loved with a love that was more than love. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Loved

Than

" 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? "

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

" I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. "

" All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. "

" 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 of the few. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. "