Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”

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

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

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

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

“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.”

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

“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.”