The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POENow this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
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We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.
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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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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – imperfection – and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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