Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of...

#Edgar Allan Poe

Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions...

#Goodness

The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability

#Greatness

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

#Language, #Reality, #Words

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

#Loneliness

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others...

#Art, #Nature, #Painting

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no...

#Perfection

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the...

#Philosophy

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

#Passion, #Poetry

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician,...

#Poets, #Reason

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of...

#Popularity

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

#Writing