A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams. — 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
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How… — 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
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In… — 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
