The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe
More Quotes From
Edgar Allan Poe (138)Additional Sources
A Dream within a DreamA Dream within a Dream (1849)"American Nationality in Literature" Marginalia (1844-1849)Annabel LeeAnnabel Lee (written 1845)Related Subjects
love (40) women (39) death (17) aging (16) art (14) virtue (12) truth (11) body (11) artists (11) soul (10)
We have ... a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of Man.... It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us—but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. "The Poetic Principle," Sartain's (1850).
Other-worldly beauty—Poe's first and enduring love.
Other-worldly beauty—Poe's first and enduring love.
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
