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x Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. US Postal Stamp of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe    
x They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret. poe_quote.jpg Edgar Allan Poe Eleonora
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.
x I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. The Gold-Bug, by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe The Gold-Bug  
x That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Poe Edgar Allan Poe    
x If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe portrait, painted by Oscar Halling in the late 1860's Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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 signature Edgar Allan Poe    
x To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Poe Edgar Allan Poe    
x There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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's Daguerreotype Edgar Allan Poe    
x Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Edgar Allan Poe signature Edgar Allan Poe    
x The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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 Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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 Allan Poe signature Edgar Allan Poe    
x It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. poe_quote_ingenius_imaginative.jpg Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue  
x The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Poe's "The Raven", illustrated by Gustave Edgar Allan Poe The Raven  
x Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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. Poe Edgar Allan Poe    
x To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Edgar Allan Poe by Vallotton Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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 Allan Poe signature Edgar Allan Poe    
x Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe by Vallotton Edgar Allan Poe    
x In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. Edgar Allan Poe portrait, painted by Oscar Halling in the late 1860's Edgar Allan Poe    
x I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. Poe Edgar Allan Poe    
x Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.   Edgar Allan Poe    
x If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... Edgar Allan Poe portrait, painted by Oscar Halling in the late 1860's Edgar Allan Poe  
Full text of the quotation: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,...
x All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within A Dream  
x 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 Allan Poe    
x 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. Poe Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle
Quotation taken from Edgar Allan Poe's essay "Th Poetic Principle", written toward the end of his life and published posthumously in 1850.
x 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 Allan Poe 2 Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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. Poe's quote on punctuation Edgar Allan Poe    
x If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul. GrotesqueAndArabesque Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque  
x Most writers -- poets in especial -- prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy -- an ecstatic intuition -- and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes... poe_philosophy_of_composition.jpg Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition
Most writers -- poets in especial -- prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy -- an ecstatic intuition -- and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and...
x It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. A cyptography challenge to Poe, possibly authored by Poe himself Edgar Allan Poe A Few Words on Secret Writing  
x But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Berenice  
x To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Manuscript, by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue  
x 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? PrematureBurial-Clarke Edgar Allan Poe The Premature Burial  
x Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. poe_philosophy_of_composition.jpg Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition  
x A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. CaskofAmontillado-Clarke Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be...
x The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover. poe_philosophy_of_composition.jpg Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition  
x I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. "The Black Cat", Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894-1895 Edgar Allan Poe    
x I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Essays on Poetry Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle  
x Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe signature Edgar Allan Poe    
x 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    
x The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Manuscript, by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue  
x Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Manuscript, by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue  
x Ours is a world of words: Quiet we call "Silence" – which is the merest word of all. Al Aaraaf Robinson Edgar Allan Poe Al Aaraaf  
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