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. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Edgar Allan Poe Read Quote
