I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA wise man hears one word and understands two.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
-
-
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The best things in life make you sweaty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Art is to look at not to criticize.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
We loved with a love that was more than love.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Experience 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 -
Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POE -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE