The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe More Quotes From Edgar Allan Poe 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 appreciategeniusmen 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-iscenturysick Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe beatstoughchildren 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 reflectiongameschess The customs of the world are so many conventional follies. Edgar Allan Poe conventionalfollyworld 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 landdreamreality 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 melancholyperfectionbeautiful 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 eyedreamlove ..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 causesbearsmind 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 bedstrongmen The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain. Edgar Allan Poe painperfectionlaw Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; Edgar Allan Poe angelnamesbook All works of art should begin... at the end. Edgar Allan Poe endsshouldart 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 hearingmaddisease 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 frogswinefeelings 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 melancholyenthusiasmmind 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 flamesgaydarkness All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe religiousinspirationallife 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 meditationmindideas As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. Edgar Allan Poe strongexercisemen
