"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

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"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"There is a pride in speaking this language."

Bernard Pivot, French Journalist

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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm."

People, Feeling, Want

"My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true."

Father, Dad, Blood

"I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life."

Life,

"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

Language, Will

"At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point."

Money, People, Admiration, Popular

"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"

Idea, Artists, Songs, United

"One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this."

Life, Right, Universe, Worth

"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."

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"I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around."

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"People are smarter than you might think."

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