With me poetry has been not a purpose but a passion and the passions should be held in reverence they must not they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations or the more paltry commendations of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish the wish to a desire the desire to an uncontrollable longing and the longing to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker and in defiance of all consequences is indulged.
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You will observe that the stories told are all about moneyseekers not about moneyfinders.
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