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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Category: Cats Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Category: Confidence Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Category: Imagination Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
Category: Love Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
Category: Mothers Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
Category: Poetry Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Category: Poetry Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Category: Puns Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Category: Speaking Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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