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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.


Andy Richter
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.


Margaret Atwood
Tags: Very Early Ray
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Lord, help my poor soul.


Edgar Allan Poe
Tags: Help Soul Poor
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
P. J. Harvey
Tags: More Than Much
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.


Edgar Allan Poe
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.


Edgar Allan Poe
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.


Edgar Allan Poe
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.


Edgar Allan Poe
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I've been getting diverse roles.


John Boyega
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
Tags: Work Get Out
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Though lovers be lost love shall not.


Dylan Thomas
Tags: Love Though Lost
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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.


Dylan Thomas
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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.


Dylan Thomas
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
Atul Gawande
Tags: Medical Me Just
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Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.


Lewis Thomas
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
Tags: Poetry Been Read