Edgar Allan Poe
Quotations
-
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” -Edgar Allan 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 Allan Poe
-
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” -Edgar Allan 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 Allan Poe
-
“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.” -Edgar Allan 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 Allan Poe
-
“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” -Edgar Allan Poe
-
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” -Edgar Allan 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 soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’” -Edgar Allan Poe
View More Quotations – By Author.
View More Quotations – By Topic.
Home.