The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThere is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POELet my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAs a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
EDGAR ALLAN POEBelieve nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
EDGAR ALLAN POESleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POEAll that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POEMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POEExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
EDGAR ALLAN POE