Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe".

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

• In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Imagination, Vision

• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Imagination, Literature, Facts

  1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Time, Imagination, Noses

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

• There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Imagination, Sublime

  1839 'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

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