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Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.”

Book:Thirty-two Stories

Work

Thirty-two Stories

This book compiles a variety of short narratives, offering readers a diverse range of themes and styles. more

Author

Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

“The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.”

Balls Profound Calm Storm Awful Explosions Rifles Powder

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“I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.”

People Attitude Emulate Recycling Idolized

Author:Michael Hutchence

“Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.”

Men States Hands Perfect United Brain United States Ships

Book:The Maritime History of Massachusetts

Source: The Maritime History of Massachusetts

“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.”