If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character. Edgar Allan Poe horseremarkablecharacter It was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe lovedeathbook 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 ambitionbelievecountry 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 agemattermen 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 welcomehalfmen 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 angellonelynight 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 analogiesplayerchess 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 passioneyepurpose 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 bostoniansraceamerica Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Edgar Allan Poe bostonpumpkinpie 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 departedvoicedwelling Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. Edgar Allan Poe mysterymenthinking 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 wantbookyears 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 executionstylewitty 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 airrealityfacts Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! Edgar Allan Poe ravenskindforget Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger. Edgar Allan Poe grewstrongermusic-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 starslightnight 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 irrelevancetruthphilosophy We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. Edgar Allan Poe valleystogethersun
