"Words have no power to impress the mind……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
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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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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
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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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