More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Art is to look at not to criticize.
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow
Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
