Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Profound Quotes, Poetry Quotes

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

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I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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