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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the ...

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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars neve...

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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis...

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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effec...

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I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! ...

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Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from ...

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And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his s...

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest in...

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I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

And thus when by Poetry, or when by Music, the most entrancing of the poetic moods, we find ourselve...

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Edgar Allan PoeThe Poetic Principle

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciousl...

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I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a v...

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