I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe love death book I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country. Edgar Allan Poe ambition believe country Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) Edgar Allan Poe age matter men We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man. Edgar Allan Poe welcome half men By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME. Edgar Allan Poe angel lonely night There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe analogies player chess With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe passion eye purpose The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive. Edgar Allan Poe bostonians race america Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Edgar Allan Poe boston pumpkin pie I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends. Edgar Allan Poe departed voice dwelling Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. Edgar Allan Poe mystery men thinking Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. Edgar Allan Poe want book years The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical. Edgar Allan Poe execution style witty In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity. Edgar Allan Poe air reality facts Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! Edgar Allan Poe ravens kind forget Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger. Edgar Allan Poe grew stronger music-love Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces Edgar Allan Poe stars light night Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe irrelevance truth philosophy We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. Edgar Allan Poe valleys together sun I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth. Edgar Allan Poe sole creation taste
