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" They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "
Edgar Allan Poe
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Night
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" Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. "
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" The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. "
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" 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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" When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. "
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" It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. "
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" We loved with a love that was more than love. "
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" 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 generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. "
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" Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. "
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" Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. "
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" I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. "
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" 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. "
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" Lord, help my poor soul. "
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" Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. "
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" First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. "
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" 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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" The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. "
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" If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. "
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" I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. "
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" 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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" To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. "
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" 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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" 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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" The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. "
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