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.

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• Edgar Allan Poe:

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

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

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

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  We loved with a love that was more than love.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think