"It will be found, in fact, that the……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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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…
- ... -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…
- Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.