A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. — 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
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the… — 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
..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
“I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — 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
