"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

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Edgar Allan Poe

#Beauty Quotes #Sole Quotes

“What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.”
“God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.”
“Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.”
“English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.”
“Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.”
“I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.”
“When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.”
“I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.”

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