If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Edgar Allan Poe playerstrugglemind The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind. Edgar Allan Poe madrainwind 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 fancymadshould-have From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. Edgar Allan Poe lossheartlove The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar Allan Poe punningratiosgoodness There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. Edgar Allan Poe littlesmightbeautiful There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design. Edgar Allan Poe butterflytwodeath In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost. Edgar Allan Poe deliriumslumberlost Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! Edgar Allan Poe guilttearsheart I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. Edgar Allan Poe terrorliteraturedanger It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe imaginationliteraturefacts There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. Edgar Allan Poe writingsongthinking Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Edgar Allan Poe painsweetchildren The best things in life make you sweaty. Edgar Allan Poe philosophicalpurposelife Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe punningablesaid Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety. Edgar Allan Poe dreamsweetnight I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves Edgar Allan Poe receivingbenefitsmen We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe valentines-daymarriagelove We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. Edgar Allan Poe dreamwinddull In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Edgar Allan Poe darkdreamnight
