Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
Interpretation
This quote expresses relief and triumph over difficult times and existential struggles.
In this quote by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker reflects on overcoming a significant crisis or challenge in life, likening the struggle of living to a fever that has finally been conquered. It captures a moment of profound relief and gratitude, suggesting that after enduring hardship and illness, there is a sense of liberation and clarity that comes with overcoming such adversities.
In practice
During a speech at a graduation ceremony, this quote can be used to inspire graduates who have faced challenges.
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.
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
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