Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. – Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. – Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe
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
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. – Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. – Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. – Edgar Allan Poe
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. – Edgar Allan Poe
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. – Edgar Allan Poe
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. – Edgar Allan Poe
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. – Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allan Poe
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. – Edgar Allan Poe
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe
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
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. – Edgar Allan Poe
