Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Edgar Allan Poe brain night ideas Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced. Edgar Allan Poe appreciate genius men the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.) Edgar Allan Poe truth-is century sick Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe beats tough children The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. Edgar Allan Poe reflection games chess The customs of the world are so many conventional follies. Edgar Allan Poe conventional folly world The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself. Edgar Allan Poe land dream reality But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy perfection beautiful And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! Edgar Allan Poe eye dream love ..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget Edgar Allan Poe causes bears mind A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe bed strong men The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain. Edgar Allan Poe pain perfection law Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; Edgar Allan Poe angel names book All works of art should begin... at the end. Edgar Allan Poe ends should art True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute. Edgar Allan Poe hearing mad disease He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling. Edgar Allan Poe frogs wine feelings I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy enthusiasm mind And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Edgar Allan Poe flames gay darkness All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe religious inspirational life It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe meditation mind ideas
