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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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 Quotes) Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) The nose of a mob is it's imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one? the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator’s sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes) 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  (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes)
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