"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the…" — Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. - Edgar Allan Poe

"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

— Edgar Allan Poe

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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
... -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…
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
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,…
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
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…
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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