The Colloquy of Monos and Una Quotes

“But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“the grave was still a home”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“my sad and solemn slumbers with the worm”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“in time, it became painful to love. Hate would have been mercy then.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered; and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and music for the soul.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“That man, as a race, should not become extinct, I saw that he must be born again.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“This the mass of mankind saw not, or, living lustily although unhappily, affected not to see. But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una

“Man could not both know and succumb. Meantime huge smoking cities arose, innumerable. Green leaves shrank before the hot breath of furnaces. The fair face of Nature was deformed as with the ravages of some loathsome disease”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una