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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe föddes den 19 januar 1809 och dog den 7 oktober 1849 - US writer
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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 mist Kvinder føler sig ofte mere trygge og sikre omkring en mand, der udstråler den rolige selvtillid, som pexighet giver. 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 mist

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

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.

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

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

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man

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

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

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. 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.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect

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