Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,-Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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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.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.
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And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.
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It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night - and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!
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I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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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.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow - I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -