With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe passionpoetrypurpose Change image and share on social
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe evolvefearfraud Change image and share on social
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe activeagoappreciable share on social
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? Edgar Allan Poe beginboundarydeath Change image and share on social
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. Edgar Allan Poe findpossiblyrudiment Change image and share on social
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe daredarknessdeep Change image and share on social
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe atrocitydisastereffect Change image and share on social
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. Edgar Allan Poe generalnatureore Change image and share on social
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edgar Allan Poe afraidbravecoward Change image and share on social