Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
American Poet
Born: Jan 19, 1809
Died: Oct 7, 1849
Dream Man Soul Think Will World
Related authors: Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe
Truth Experience Will Philosophy Seemingly Vast Arises True Perhaps Always Irrelevant Show Shown Larger Portion
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. Edgar Allan Poe
Soul Value Scarcely Poem Only Ratio Excitement Observe Excites Title Inasmuch Deserves Elevating Need
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe
Will Otherwise Analytic Fact Never Always Truly Than In Fact Fanciful Ingenious Found Imaginative
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Edgar Allan Poe
World Poet Fire Critic Admire Generous Taught Reason
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe
Truth Nature Some Superficial General Particular Most Richest
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
Love Friendship Man Heart Something Directly Brute Unselfish Had Mere Occasion Him Frequent Test Goes Which Fidelity Who Paltry
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. Edgar Allan Poe
Religion Charity Strong Christ Crime Made Men Argument About Only Feel Understand Which Against
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Edgar Allan Poe
Time Imagination Led Mob Quietly Any Nose
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