It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Author
Edgar Allan Poe
41 quotations
About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the detective fiction genre. In addit…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Edgar Allan PoeExperience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Advertisement
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
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.
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, o…
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.
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 …
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.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.