Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe 5
Edgar Allan Poe: an American poet, short-story writer, and critic, b. Boston. He is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature. His skillfully wrought tales and poems convey with passionate intensity the mysterious, dreamlike, and often macabre forces that pervaded his sensibility. He is also considered the father of the modern detective story.
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous- secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will- we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.
Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — Nevermore!
Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively, Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before.
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