Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence -- whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
