“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2] Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
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“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”
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“The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.”
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“Me quedé demasiado tiempo dentro de mi cabeza y terminé perdiéndola”
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that th...”
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“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
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“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
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“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
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“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I co...”
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of...”
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“Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a...”
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“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkl...”
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“Blood was its Avatar and its seal.”
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“You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.”
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“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, An...”
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“By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule --...”
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“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide...”
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“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
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“I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife”
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