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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“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 deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of… — 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 heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.… — 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 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 impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the… — 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 ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! — 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 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
