"A poem in my opinion, is opposed to……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site.
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be,…
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I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for…
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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