Poe Quotes
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.
If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.
Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.
You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.
I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Too often our intellect gets in the way of our hearts thereby blocking what instinctually can be drawn to us bringing happiness
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
We all experience sadness. The real test is being strong enough to continue on regardless.
All things we involve ourselves with should be of love. If it is not of love, stay away from it.
I will sail upon a sea of light, My guide above and below the stars.My heart for you is in flightAnd I shall come to you in your arms this night
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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.
A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.
In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")
It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.
So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.
Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")
I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.
Sometimes in this world, all you have is YOU!Stand strong and tall. No one will do it for you
