Edgar Allan Poe
10 quotes
American writer, poet, and critic, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. He was a pioneer of the short story and detective fiction.
“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. "Letter to Mr. B”
“It is with literature as with law or empire”
“Sonnet. To Science”
“And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. "Alone", l. 20”
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were”
“Years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute. To M”
“Sound loves to revel in a summer night. Al Aaraaf (1829).”
“The happiest day”
“O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven! " Tamerlane ", l. 177 (1884).”
“A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride”