He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower – is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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For this reason is a musical education most essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with beauty and making the man beautiful-minded... He will praise and admire the beautiful: will receive it with joy into his soul, will feed upon it, and assimilate his own condition with it.

— Edgar Allan Poe

But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I became possessed with the keenest curiosity about the whirl itself... and my principal grief was that I should never be able to tell my old companions on shore about the mysteries I should see.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart –.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness.

— Edgar Allan Poe

As for Progress it was at one time quite a nuisance, but it never progressed.

— Edgar Allan Poe

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? – from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Now, then, did my spirit fully and freely burn with more than all the fires of her own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

He is cool- cool as a cucumber.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Then we sallied forth into the streets arm in arm, continuing the topics of the day, or roaming far and wide until a late hour, seeking, amid the wild lights and shadows of the populous city, that infinity of mental excitement which quiet observation can afford.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If the author did not deliberately propose to himself a suggestive indefinitiveness of meaning with the view of bringing about a definitiveness of vague and therefore of spiritual effect- this, at least, arose from the silent analytical promptings of that poetic genius which, in its supreme development, embodies all orders of intellectual capacity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

That she loved me I should not have doubted; and I might have been easily aware that, in a bosom such as hers, love would have regained no ordinary passion. But in death only was I fully impressed with the strength of her affection.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Let me call myself, for the present, Willam Wilson.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It might have been midnight, or perhaps earlier, or later, for I had taken no note of time, when a sob, low, gentle, but very distinct, startled me from my revery. – I felt that it came from the bed of ebony – the bed of death. I listened in an agony of superstitious terror – but there was no repetition of the sound. I strained my vision to detect any motion in the corpse – but there was not the slightest perceptible.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I loathed her with a hatred belonging more to demon than to man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I paid Poe nothing, since he was on staff. I should think you’d want to do better than that.

— Edgar Allan Poe

We might say that from the impious love of liberty has been born a new tyranny – the tyranny of fools – which, in its insensible ferocity, resembles the idol of Juggernaut.

— Edgar Allan Poe

That man, as a race, should not become extinct, I saw that he must be born again.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Yet what business had I with hope?

— Edgar Allan Poe
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