Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime...

Edgar Allan Poe

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• Sublime

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• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Early

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
  • Imagination

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • School
  • Family

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • Imagination

• We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • Wife
  • Son
  • Brother

• You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • War

• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  

  Bill McCartney
  • God

• There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Imagination
  • Torture
  • Sublime