A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Weitere Zitate von Edgar Allan Poe
Zum Autor"Lord help my poor soul."
"Let him talk,' said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. 'Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I a satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle."
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
"Invisible things are the only realities."
"The grandeur that was Rome."
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore."