Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Interpretation
True enthusiasm carries a powerful and undeniable expressiveness.
This quote by Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes the strength and clarity of emotions when they are genuinely felt. It suggests that when someone is truly passionate about something, their enthusiasm can convey messages more effectively than words alone, making the expression of sentiment resonate deeply with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students at graduation.
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.
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
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