Beauty Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

— Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to…

— Lily Dougall

There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal…

— David Petraeus

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of…

— Simon de Pury

Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the…

— David Hume