Capacity Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common…

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular…

— Edgar Allan Poe

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

— Edgar Allan Poe