The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.

"Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."

with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.

is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.

By what trivial circumstances men are often led to assert what they do not really believe!