Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge.

Edgar Allan Poe

To be thoroughly conversant with a man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

Edgar Allan Poe

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

Edgar Allan Poe