Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years...
To-day I wear these chains, and am HERE. To-morrow I shall be fetterless!--BUT WHERE?
Leave my loneliness unbroken
Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?
Darkness there, and nothing more.
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
By a route obscure and lonelyHaunted by ill angels only,Where an eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule --From a wild, wei...
And all I loved, I loved alone.
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man..
Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,The shade replied,-If you seek for Eldorado.