Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“If [a short story author's] very initial sentence tend not to the out bringing of this effect, then he has failed in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one the ambition of serving the great cause… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is… — 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 Image
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 Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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