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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
May
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Contemplation
Pleasure
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination
Time
Mob
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Power
Horror
Mind
Reality
Words
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
Talent
Stupidity
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Intelligence
Science
Madness
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?
Edgar Allan Poe
Death
Life
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
Death
Woman
World
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe
Fire
Reason
World
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.
Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams
Hope
Content
Man
World
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
Man