Edgar Poe quotes Born: 01/19/1809 Died: 10/07/1849 Country: usa

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Poe)
• We loved with a love that was more than love. (Edgar Poe)
• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. (Edgar Poe)
• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Edgar Poe)
• I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. (Edgar Poe)
• I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. (Edgar Poe)
• 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. (Edgar Poe)
• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Edgar Poe)
• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. (Edgar Poe)
• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist. (Edgar Poe)
• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. (Edgar Poe)
• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. (Edgar Poe)
• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. (Edgar Poe)
• All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. (Edgar Poe)
• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. (Edgar Poe)
• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. (Edgar Poe)
• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime. (Edgar Poe)
• 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. (Edgar Poe)
• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery -- by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press -- their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. (Edgar Poe)
• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title. (Edgar Poe)
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. (Edgar Poe)
• Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. (Edgar Poe)
• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. (Edgar Poe)
• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. (Edgar Poe)
• Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. (Edgar Poe)
• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Edgar Poe)
• I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. (Edgar Poe)
• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. (Edgar Poe)
• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Edgar Poe)
• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. (Edgar Poe)
• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. (Edgar Poe)

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