Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

American - Poet | January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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

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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.

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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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.

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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.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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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.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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