Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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.
