Edgar Allan Poe

(27 votes)   Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe
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(340 votes)   Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(334 votes)   To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(177 votes)   After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(127 votes)   The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(126 votes)   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
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(125 votes)   I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(121 votes)   Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(118 votes)   There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(117 votes)   It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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(107 votes)   The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(106 votes)   All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(103 votes)   Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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(101 votes)   I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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