Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

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• The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
• In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom…
• ... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
• A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
• As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that…
• Grammar is the analysis of language.
• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment...
• It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
• The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of…
• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
• Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory…
• There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
• Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able…
• I fell in love with melancholy
• Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
• I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts…
• For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting…
• If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering…

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