“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A little of this. A little of that.
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, B. January 19, 1809 – D. October 7, 1849
“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
In death – no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web may have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
~Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (2006), “The best of Poe”, p.70 Prestwick House Inc.
Source: AZQuotes.com
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry, music without the idea is
simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Mr. B-
Poetry is the rhythmical creation
of beauty of words.
Edgar Allan Poe
It was a good night to take
a walk with his dog, on the snow
covered cemetery. His mission was
to hopefully find the ghost of Edgar
Allan Poe, and if he did see him, he
would knew be at a loss as to what
to say to him. If not, then he would
have the memory of seeing the famous
writer of the mystery and the macabre.
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
– Edgar Allan Poe