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 POEAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe best things in life make you sweaty.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
EDGAR ALLAN POEEvery poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIf a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
EDGAR ALLAN POEIn efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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 POEI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
EDGAR ALLAN POEA million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe 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 POEIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
EDGAR ALLAN POEWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POENever to suffer would never to have been blessed.
EDGAR ALLAN POE