“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. — 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… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — 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
