The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings Quotes

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the true poetic intellect can end this long-established dualism.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“That is another of your odd notions,’ said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing ‘odd’ that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of ‘oddities.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force. Here,”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us – but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“Poe would certainly have applauded Walter Pater’s assertion that ‘all art continuously aspires to the condition of music’ – to that ideally abstract medium whose components are not distorted by material connotation, and are thus freed to create their own unique, transcendent relationships. It”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

“Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings