Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
10 Quotes of ‘Edgar Allan Poe’ :
1. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
2. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
3. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
4. I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
5. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
6. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
7. The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
8. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
9. 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.
10. I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
By Shweta Tiwari
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