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

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• 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

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears

• Edgar Allan Poe:

  Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what