If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spray together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.
Edgar Allan Poe
Nature, Chaos, Experience, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Disorientation, Existential Fear
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” Edgar Allan Poe
Art, Poetry, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Creative Expression, Emotional Resonance
Edgar Allan Poe Art, Poetry, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Creative Expression, Emotional Resonance“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.” Edgar Allan Poe
Madness, Perception, Anxiety, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Psychological Struggle
Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Perception, Anxiety, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Depth, Psychological Struggle“There is no beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.” Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Aesthetics, Creativity, Philosophical Observation, Artistic Principle, Emotional Truth
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Aesthetics, Creativity, Philosophical Observation, Artistic Principle, Emotional Truth“He is cool—cool as a cucumber.” Edgar Allan Poe
Calmness, Composure, Metaphor, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Stability, Colloquial Expression
Edgar Allan Poe Calmness, Composure, Metaphor, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Stability, Colloquial Expression“So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.” Edgar Allan Poe
Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror
Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror“How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.” Edgar Allan Poe
Emotion, Crowd Psychology, Intensity, Philosophical Insight, Social Dynamics, Human Experience
Edgar Allan Poe Emotion, Crowd Psychology, Intensity, Philosophical Insight, Social Dynamics, Human Experience“Once upon a midnight dreary.” Edgar Allan Poe
Setting, Atmosphere, Narrative Tone, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Resonance, Literary Tradition
Edgar Allan Poe Setting, Atmosphere, Narrative Tone, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Resonance, Literary Tradition“Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.” Edgar Allan Poe
Will, Divinity, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Inquiry, Existential Reflection
Edgar Allan Poe Will, Divinity, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Inquiry, Existential Reflection“When reason returned with the morning – when I had slept off the fumes of the night’s debauch – I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.” Edgar Allan Poe
Regret, Morality, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Psychological Reflection
Edgar Allan Poe Regret, Morality, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Psychological Reflection“This wild star – it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,... I spoke it... into birth.” Edgar Allan Poe
Creation, Inspiration, Time, Philosophical Reflection, Artistic Vision, Emotional Expression
Edgar Allan Poe Creation, Inspiration, Time, Philosophical Reflection, Artistic Vision, Emotional Expression“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.” Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Nature, Observation, Philosophical Insight, Grandeur, Emotional Connection
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Nature, Observation, Philosophical Insight, Grandeur, Emotional Connection“Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.” Edgar Allan Poe
Reading, Engagement, Interpretation, Philosophical Insight, Literary Appreciation, Social Connection
Edgar Allan Poe Reading, Engagement, Interpretation, Philosophical Insight, Literary Appreciation, Social Connection“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.” Edgar Allan Poe
Happiness, Expectation, Hope, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Observation, Emotional Truth
Edgar Allan Poe Happiness, Expectation, Hope, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Observation, Emotional Truth“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
Beauty, Emotion, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Poetic Reflection, Existential Complexity
Edgar Allan Poe Beauty, Emotion, Duality, Philosophical Insight, Poetic Reflection, Existential Complexity“Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore – Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”” Edgar Allan Poe
Death, Memory, Sorrow, Philosophical Reflection, Literary Symbolism, Emotional Complexity
Edgar Allan Poe Death, Memory, Sorrow, Philosophical Reflection, Literary Symbolism, Emotional Complexity“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” Edgar Allan Poe
Fear, Inner Demons, Psychological Insight, Philosophical Observation, Existential Reflection
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Inner Demons, Psychological Insight, Philosophical Observation, Existential Reflection“He did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.” Edgar Allan Poe
Deception, Irony, Psychological Insight, Emotion, Philosophical Conflict, Dark Humor
Edgar Allan Poe Deception, Irony, Psychological Insight, Emotion, Philosophical Conflict, Dark Humor“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” Edgar Allan Poe
Fear, Emotion, Vulnerability, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Complexity, Existential Reflection
Edgar Allan Poe Fear, Emotion, Vulnerability, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Complexity, Existential Reflection