A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no words written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design. And by such means, with such care and skill, a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of him who contemplates it with a kindred art, a sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished because undisturbed: and this is an end unattainable by the novel. Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem; but undue length is yet more to be avoided.
Edgar Allan PoeMots clés poetry writing writers horror effect
Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.
Edgar Allan PoeThere was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.
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Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
Edgar Allan PoeMots clés romantic-tragedy
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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إن السعادة ليست في العلم، بل في تحصيل العلم. الغبطة الأبدية هي أن نعرف دائما، أما معرفتنا كل شيء فتجديف شيطاني.
Edgar Allan Poeوالواقع أن الإنسان الذي يريد أن يتأمل مواجهةً مجد الله على الأرض، لا بد له من أن يتأمل هذا المجد في الوحدة.
Edgar Allan PoeAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
Edgar Allan PoeThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan PoeA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
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