More Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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.
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
Art is to look at not to criticize.
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.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
False hope is nicer than no hope at all.
