“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the way of remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice–although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“We have … a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of Man…. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us–but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his enemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return?”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“In the tale proper–where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident–mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustained … the science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle’s treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“I have often been reproached with the aridity of my genius; a deficiency of imagination has been imputed to me as a crime; and thePyrrhonism of my opinions has at all times rendered me notorious. Indeed, a strong relish for physical philosophy has, I fear, tinctured my mind with a very common error of this age–I mean the habit of referring occurrences, even the least susceptible of such reference, to the principles of that science.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“To revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment…. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple–a few plain words–“My Heart Laid Bare.” But–this little book must be true to its title.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“What I here propound is true: … if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to … Life Everlasting.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who … shall … persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;… he grew tremulous and … crying with a loud voice, “This isindeed Life itself!” turned suddenly to regard his beloved:MShe was dead!”
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“To see distinctly the machinery–the wheels and pinions–of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“I exacted the most sacred oaths, that under no circumstances they would bury me until decomposition had so materially advanced asto render farther preservation impossible. And, even then, my mortal terrors would listen to no reason–would accept no consolation. I entered into a series of elaborate precautions.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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