For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
Interpretation
Poe expresses the power of language in conveying thoughts clearly and effectively.
In this quote, Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes the profound relationship between thought and language. He suggests that the act of articulating one's thoughts in words can often bring clarity and precision, allowing an individual to understand their own ideas more distinctly. This reflection on the significance of language highlights how it shapes our understanding and the importance of expressing oneself articulately.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of communication skills.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
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