Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.
With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.
It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.
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.
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.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly led.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly led.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence as a dream.