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  • Edgar Allan Poe Quotes   387
  • I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Taste Quotes , Creation Quotes
  • And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Fall Quotes , Gay Quotes
  • Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sweet Quotes
  • Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes