Quotes

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.” Edgar Allan Poe

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

“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.” Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“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.” Edgar Allan Poe

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

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.” Edgar Allan Poe

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

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” Edgar Allan Poe

“In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” Edgar Allan Poe

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.” Edgar Allan Poe

“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“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.” Edgar Allan Poe

“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.” Edgar Allan Poe

“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.” Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.” Edgar Allan Poe

“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.” Edgar Allan Poe

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.” Edgar Allan Poe

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” Edgar Allan Poe

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” Edgar Allan Poe

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.” Edgar Allan Poe

“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.” Edgar Allan Poe

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” Audrey Hepburn

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” Audrey Hepburn

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” Audrey Hepburn