All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
More from: Edgar Allan Poe
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. -
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. -
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. -
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
More quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
- I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?