Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

The glory that was Greece.

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it.

The grandeur that was Rome.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.