Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poewas an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 January 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.