I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Interpretation
The speaker emphasizes the value of hope over material wealth.
In this quote, Edgar Allan Poe expresses a deep sense of poverty in financial terms, but contrasts this with a richness found in hope. He acknowledges that while he lacks tangible wealth, the intangible quality of hope remains invaluable, highlighting the importance of optimism even in dire circumstances.
In practice
Use this quote during a motivational speech about perseverance in tough times.
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 a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.
I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
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