In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Now 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
EDGAR ALLAN POE







