Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
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I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves...
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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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.
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Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.
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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.
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Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows...
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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...
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The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
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No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.
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The past is a pebble in my shoe.
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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs...
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There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.
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As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.
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I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.
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Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.
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From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.