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| Edgar Allan Poe
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. All we see is but a dream within a dream. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. 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. 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. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. 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 nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. 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. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. 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. With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. |
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