In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan PoeI heed not that my earthly lot
Hath - little of Earth in it -
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: -
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: religion organized-religion irreligion
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
Edgar Allan PoeWe gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
Edgar Allan PoeThe idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
Edgar Allan PoeEven with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: horror
Invisible things are the only realities.
Edgar Allan PoeMysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan PoePoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: poetry
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