I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
Category Archive: Edgar Allan Poe
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.