Delirium Quote by Leslie Stephen Download Open image “Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.” — Leslie Stephen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delirium Delirium tremens Hawthorne Kind
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life. — John Astin Copy Share Image
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Poe is to poetry what I am to duck farming. You can quote me on that. And if that’s not good enough, you can… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid Poe and… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
“The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time ("Spanish Generosity")” — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe" "I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...” — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.” — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“No poetry lives which reflects only the cheerful emotions. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. We can bring harmony out… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Food for the body, milk for your bones, ice for the bleeding, a belly of stones.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Sister? Where should we start?" "Here?" "Very good. We are here. Where should we travel to now?" "...somewhere that's not here?" "That was the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image