"The nose of a mob is its imagination.……" — Edgar Allan Poe

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

— 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…
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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